We hear from survivors of the Oklahoma tornado and get the latest on the rescue efforts. 
Chapters
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Caravaggio
400 years after his death - the innovative Italian painter, Caravaggio.
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The Lost Storytellers
From Morocco, the story of the disappearing story-tellers.
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Micmac
From France, the latest movie from the director of Amelie...
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Ru Freeman
...and the servant-problem in Sri-Lanka. We hear from a new young novelist.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Micmacs a tire-larigot
We review the latest offering from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the man behind such films as Delicatessen and Amelie.
Micmacs Website
Broadcasts
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BBC World ServiceMon 22 Feb 2010 22:32 GMT BBC World Service
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BBC World ServiceTue 23 Feb 2010 03:32 GMT BBC World Service
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BBC World ServiceTue 23 Feb 2010 09:32 GMT BBC World Service
