Vincent Dowd

Here's my @bbcworldservice package about the unusual new documentary #SoundtracktoaCoupdEtat which is up for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. #Oscars2025 Click and go about 18 minutes in. https://t.co/2QgCarAMIb https://t.co/8R9433pRRi

Worth listening to my @bbcworldservice piece on excellent and disturbing documentary #Incident I talk to director #BillMorrison and co-producer @jamiekalven Nominated as Best Documentary Short at #Oscars2025 Click link and go roughly 11 minutes in: https://t.co/sAlNr5kudR https://t.co/ftM3DAfM0o

UK release schedules dictate most cinema audiences won't see #ImStillHere until later this month. But the film - directed by #WalterSalles - is the most powerful of the movies nominated as Best Picture at #Oscars2025 At its core is the power of family. https://t.co/q8Nly35bml

Here's my @bbcworldservice radio piece on excellent new play @royalcourt theatre in London #AGoodHouse by South African writer #AmyJephta A thoughtfully comic look at race in her country - it deserves to travel. Click and go about 48'30" in. https://t.co/lW6onMqUXM https://t.co/hkGJFnAdkM

Here's a rarity. Two excellent new plays opening the same week at two important London venues. @TheRSC production KYOTO clearly delighted audiences @sohoplacelondon as did A GOOD HOUSE by #AmyJephta @royalcourt Shockingly neither is a musical. Both worth seeing however. https://t.co/tHze23F6eK

Here's my @bbcworldservice piece, on air today, on excellent new Chinese film documentary #TheSinkingoftheLisbonMaru from director Fang Li. A remarkable WW2 story about British POWs and their Chinese fishermen saviours. Click and go about 17'30" in: https://t.co/ggmltwGJ64 https://t.co/Ql7d3MZwlE

Listen to my @bbcworldservice radio package on the fun stage adaptation from @TheRSC of the @HanifKureishi novel #TheBuddhaofSuburbia which opens this week @BarbicanCentre in London. Click this link and go about 17'30" in: https://t.co/JYqPubJbnD https://t.co/zqKy4Myx9B

Take a listen to my @bbcworldservice radio package about the excellent ZOMBIES exhibition @quaibranly museum in Paris. Philippe Charlier @doctroptard has interesting things to say about connections to the slave trade. Go about 17 minutes into this link: https://t.co/DSJXCNJJnU https://t.co/dLy3XW7HWw

Here's my @bbcworldservice radio package looking at the very interesting new exhibition at @SainsburyCentre @UEA - Why Do We Take Drugs? The VR ayahuasca trip is one highlight. Click link and go about 18 minutes in. https://t.co/h0bmSI6eBJ https://t.co/tiOmc5CRvT

Take a listen to my @bbcworldservice radio piece about the much-praised new #VanGogh exhibition @NationalGallery in London. I spoke to co-curator #ChristopherRiopelle Click the link and go about 21'45" in. https://t.co/WqI78i1LVr https://t.co/Z1r1Gzgkh2

Listen to my package on @bbcworldservice and on @BBCr4today package on the superb @JanisJoplin The American show #ANightwithJanisJoplin about to open in London. Interesting comments from Laura and Michael Joplin. Go 36'15" into this link - https://t.co/XZweIiuaz2 https://t.co/ufAo1ipfr9

Genuine hit @OrangeTreeThtr Richmond. #RedSpeedo fits big perfs and a teeny pool into a theatre with capacity of under 200. @FinnCole an impressive stage debut; other cast bravely fight disadvantage of being clothed. @rcannie create a frightening moment late on. Should transfer. https://t.co/TssNgw3v7Y

Listen to my radio package for @bbcworldservice on the Japanese manga being reborn in London and elsewhere as stage musicals. @YourLieMusical just opened but also @SpiritedLDN and @totoro_show ... and #DeathNote still to come. Go about 18 mins into link. https://t.co/8ByJv8q4ji https://t.co/gA86PLcGzx

Take a listen to my piece on the @Barbie exhibition just opened @DesignMuseum in London. Follow link and go about 17'30" in. https://t.co/0XvoIGpazB https://t.co/djsIlDfmOw

Take a listen to my @bbcworldservice radio piece about new play KYOTO @TheRSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Writers #JoeMurphy and #JoeRobertson look back 27 years to the @UN climate conference in Japan. Click link and go about 41'15" in https://t.co/x7itv3I0Wt https://t.co/fheDdUJxRw

Take a listen to my @bbcworldservice radio piece about the activist and photographer #ZaneleMuholi @Tate in London. They talk about their striking images of South African trans and gay communities. (Click and go about 31'30" into the link.) https://t.co/fybqNVGX7v https://t.co/XBtGtacOKj

Sad to hear of death of songwriting maestro #RichardMSherman at 95. With brother Robert a huge figure @Disney Their genius for storytelling in popular song bettered only by Irving Berlin. #MaryPoppins @TheJungleBook #UglyBugBall #ChittyChittyBangBang Part of countless childhoods. https://t.co/znhaaMrwMz