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Last broadcast on Thu, 12 Nov 2009, 13:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles.
COMICS GET POLITICAL
A new anthology 'Unmask Corruption' is being published this month in a bid to make young people angry at the world's abuses of power through the medium of popular comic culture. Mark Coles visits the accompanying exhibition to find out whether comics really are a powerful tool of political persuasion.
Artwork above by Dave McKean.
If We Must Die
Claude Mackay wrote a poem in 1919 called, 'If we must die' in response to race riots across American cities. It was a poem of such quality that it became an anthem of resistance everywhere and was used by Sir Winston Churchill to encourage troops in the second world war. But he and his speechwriters never attributed the words to Mackay.......
Mario Vargas Llosa Musical
A new stage adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's book 'Captain Pantaleon and the Special Service' has just opened in New York - as a musical. This bureaucratic farce has already been made into a film, twice, neither of them to the author's satisfaction. What will the notoriously critical author make of this adaption? The Strand finds out.
HERITAGE ORCHESTRA
Hip hop DJs and classical orchestras might appear to have little in common, but Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of the more famous Sergei) has composed a concerto for turntables and orchestra. Created using a unique notation to blend phenomenal skills on the wheels of steel with orchestral playing, it'll opens your ears.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Political Comics
(07.51)Mark Coles visits the 'Unmask Corruption' exhibition.
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Chapter 2
If We Must Die
(05.50)How Winston Churchill used verse from Jamaica's national poet.
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Chapter 3
Mario Vargas Llosa Musical
(05.21)Mario Vargas Llosa sees one of his best known books turned into a musical.
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Chapter 4
Heritage Orchestra
(07.27)Gabriel Prokofiev's concerto for turntables and orchestra.
Broadcasts
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Wed 11 Nov 200922:32
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Thu 12 Nov 200903:32
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Thu 12 Nov 200909:32
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Thu 12 Nov 200913:32
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