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The journalist and broadcaster Ellen E. Jones explores the immense potential of film to challenge the status quo in her book, Screen Deep: How Film And TV Can Solve Racism And Save The World. She explores different genres from superheroes and westerns to horror and arthouse. And she argues that such a popular art form - either shared in the cinema, or beamed direct into your home \u2013 revels in the diversity of its story-telling.

The Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari has chosen to draw from her own personal experience in her debut feature, Shayda (open in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 8th March 2024). Set in a women\u2019s shelter, the film explores what it means for an Iranian woman to divorce her husband and fight for a new life for herself and her child.

But what about other art forms and the stories they tell? The Royal Academy\u2019s latest exhibition \u2013 Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change (until 28th April) \u2013 places work from the 18th century alongside contemporary work to explore how art, both old and new, is entangled with and reflected by Britain\u2019s colonial past. Hew Locke will be showing his major work, Armada, which consists of a giant flotilla of model boats.

Producer: Katy Hickman