The Strand - Fri, 10 Jul 2009

Serbian Exit Festival
Novi Sad - Serbia's second largest city - is where this weekend the Exit Music Festival kicks off in a medieval castle beside the Danube. Started by students ten years ago, it all began as a protest against the former President Slobodan Milosevic and it's been gaining in popularity ever since.

Courtney Hunt
The double-Oscard nominated and multi-prize winning film Frozen River has been described by Time magazine as "about as truthful picture of American bleakness as its possible for a movie to present". Featuring a no-name cast this film by new director Courtney Hunt is a story about people smuggling across the US/Canadian border. Courtney Hunt visits our studios to discuss the film. Http://www.sonyclassics.com/frozenriver/

French Bond
In case you've have been fooled into thinking that the English have a monopoly on suave, sophisticated, smooth talking spies with a killer instinct and a taste for tuxedos, a new French movie called Rio Ne Repond Plus - in English they're calling it Lost in Rio - will prove the French can do it too - and their version of James Bond is funny.

Patrick Neate
Patrick Neate won the prestigious Whitbread Prize for his book Twelve Bar Blues - a brilliant sprawling tale of African chiefs, mixed-up music and America's deep South. Now he's back with a book that again spans continents with quirky characters like a hot music talent called Nobody with his hiphop version of the classic hymn Jerusalem.

Broadcast on:

BBC World Service, 12:32pm Monday 13th July 2009

Duration:

28 minutes

Available until:

12:00am Thursday 1st January 2099

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