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Last broadcast on Tue, 22 Dec 2009, 13:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
In today's programme - Sherlock Holmes film Review, Arabic Books in Israel, Eric Siblin.
Sherlock Holmes
We take a peek at the newest Sherlock Holmes film - starring Robert Downey Jr as the great detective with Jude Law as Watson. It's directed by Guy Ritchie and has been described by some as a return to form. But will this latest version offend Holmes purists, and is it any good? We hear from Holmes aficionado Brian Sibley.
Arabic books in Israel
Israel's law banning import of material from "enemy states" effectively amounts to a ban on Arabic translations of books from Harry Potter to Shakespeare coming from the major publishing houses in the region. A recent attempt to repeal the law has just been blocked. We talk to children's author and journalist Avirama Golan about why this is a missed opportunity not just for all citizens of Israel - not just those who read in arabic.
JS Bach's Cello Suites
For many Bach's cello suites are a musical masterpiece. Journalist and music critic Eric Siblin discusses his infatuation with the music and its recognition across the world through his new book 'The Cello Suites'. Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery the book weaves together three dramatic elements: Johann Sebastian Bach and the missing manuscript of his suites from the eighteenth century; Pablo Casals and the historic discovery of the music in Spain in the nineteenth century, and Eric Siblin's own infatuation with the suites in the twenty-first century.
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Mon 21 Dec 200922:32
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Tue 22 Dec 200903:32
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Tue 22 Dec 200909:32
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Tue 22 Dec 200913:32
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