85. Tristram Hunt: Champion of Creativity at the V&A

Break Out Culture is back, and we kick off the autumn season by talking about one of the most important issues of our time – creativity, or the lack of it, in our education system.  Tristram Hunt has been director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017 and is a historian, broadcaster and journalist with several books under his belt, as well as having served as a Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Education.  He’s now a mission to ensure that the V & A champions design and creativity for everyone, believing that creative and design skills amongst children and young people are drastically diminishing.  With his roles in education and politics as well as at the V&A, no-one’s better placed to lead this important national debate. So, tune in to learn about how the V & A is redressing the balance.  There’s a a specially commissioned film ‘Creativity: It’s What Makes Us’and three new sites, Young V&A, opening in Bethnal Green next year, V&A East Storehouse and V&A East Museum.   Plus he tells us about the forthcoming exhibitions from Hallyu! The Korean Wave to Chanel, set to be next year’s blockbuster.