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BBC Radio Ulster's daily arts programme, bringing you compelling interviews with the leading figures in the arts, lively reviews and fascinating features.
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16 May 12 "Sing a Song"
Thu, 17 May 12
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30 mins
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19 days remainingMarie-Louise Muir visits the recording of "Sing a Song" - an album by people with learning difficulties.
15 May 12 Danny Wallace
Tue, 15 May 12
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30 mins
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17 days remainingAuthor and TV presenter Danny Wallace talks to Marie-Louise Muir about his first fictional work, 'Charlotte Street'.
14 May 12 Henry McCullough
Mon, 14 May 12
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30 mins
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16 days remainingMusician Henry McCullough talks to Kim Lenaghan
10 MAY 12
Thu, 10 May 12
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12 days remainingFollowing the leak of a draft programme for City of Culture 2013, we gauge reaction from Eamon McCann, Anita Robinson, Stephen Price and Ana Leddy - plus we discuss the Amelia Earhart festival and The Belfast Film Festival, featuring the Terri Hooley biopic 'Good Vibrations'
09 May 12 Maurice Sendak
Wed, 9 May 12
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11 days remainingThe American author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, who wrote the classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" has died at the age of eighty-three. Arts Extra takes a look at his extrordinary career.
08 MAY 12
Tue, 8 May 12
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10 days remainingKatie Melua and the Duchess of Abercorn discuss the Pushkin prize, the Ulster hall celebrate 150 years with 15 minute theatre, the Odd Couple comes to Belfast, and Joe Lindsay remembers a day out in Belfast with Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.
04 May 12 Polish Art
Fri, 4 May 12
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25 mins
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6 days remainingMarie-Louise Muir talks to Marek Wasilewski and Eva Grosman about about the similarities between Polish and Northern Irish Art.
01 May 12 The Rubberbandits
Tue, 1 May 12
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30 mins
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3 days remainingOne half of the Limerick pardody rap due 'The Rubberbandits' talks to Arts Extra about the role of the Church for Irish Artists.
30 Apr 12 Eric Angus White
Mon, 30 Apr 12
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31 mins
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2 days remainingWe review Owen McCafferty's latest play, based on the 1912 Titanic Inquiry, and the opening production at the Mac and does Glenn Close convince cinema goers as cross-dressing Dublin waiter Albert Nobbs?
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