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Last broadcast on Tue, 23 Feb 2010, 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: an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the artist Caravaggio, Marrakesh's Lost Storytellers, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film Micmacs and Sri-Lankan writer Ru Freeman's new book.
Ru Freeman
Latha was always 'A Disobedient Girl', the title of a first novel by the Sri Lankan born writer Ru Freeman (in above photo). And a caste ridden Sri Lanka is the setting for the complex interweaving of family and servant ties that dominate the lives of the characters in this book.
Caravaggio
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Merisi better known as Caravaggio. As one of the great masters of Western Art, his life was also shrouded in tales of sex and violence making him also one of the most notorious. Prof Breda Ennis discusses the awaited exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome which brings together his greatest works from around the world.
The lost storytellers of Marrakesh
For perhaps a thousand years the 'hlaykia' or traditional storytellers in the great square in Marrakesh have been telling the tales of A Thousand and One Nights and other African traditions. But now they have gone and one of the world's great oral traditions or, as UNESCO describes it, pieces of intangible world heritage has disappeared. Does this matter and how did it happen?
Photo shows Djemaa el Fna Square in Marrakesh.
Micmacs a tire-larigot
We review the latest offering from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the man behind such films as Delicatessen and Amelie.
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