Farah Bashir: The art of childhood

Farah Bashir, author of Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir, shares the particular challenges for girls growing up in a conflict zone.

Bjorn Andresen, Swedish teenage star of the 1971 film, Death In Venice, talks about how being dubbed “the most beautiful boy in the world”, blighted his childhood. He’s revisiting his early role and its impact on his life in a new documentary called The Most Beautiful Boy in the World.

Japanese-American artist Ei Arakawa on his new artwork, Mega Please Draw Freely, at the Tate Modern gallery in London. It’s breaking down the boundaries between artists and audience – with children and young people featuring strongly on both sides.

And Turner Prize-winning Colombian artist Oscar Murillo and Argentinian political scientist Clara Dublanc on their collaboration with 100,000 international school children for their Frequencies exhibition in Hackney in London.

Presenter - Chi Chi Izundu Producer - Paul Waters, Olivia Skinner, Kirsty McQuire

(Photo: Farah Bashir. Credit: Shahbaz Khan)