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Last broadcast on Fri, 11 Jun 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 Mark Coles.
On today's programme: Oil Film reviews with science magazine editor Roger Highfield, South African multimedia arts installation - Footsak, South African writer Ken Barris and singer-songwriter Richard Hawley.
Oil Documentaries
With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill hitting the headlines we look at two recently released documentaries, H2Oil and Petropolis, which attempt to address the environmental impact of the current global oil crisis. They explore the landscape and the personal stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: extracting oil from Canada's tar sands. Roger Highfield of the New Scientist reviews.
Footsak*
Just in time for the World Cup kick off, three artists have kicked a ball from Durban to Algiers and back again, recording en route "Africa in conversation with itself" and meeting flamboyant football fans, street philosophers, poets, artists, kings and queens and all manner of people in love with the beautiful game. The result is a multimedia arts installation featuring video films, sounds, stills photography and lots of football paraphernalia that opens in Durban this week. Mark Coles speaks to them.
Caine Prize
Writer Ken Barris
The Caine Prize for African Writing is one of the continent's most prestigious awards. It's designed to uncover new talent and previous winners -- including the Sudanese Leila Aboulela and the Nigerians Helon Habila and Segun Afolabi -- have gone on to international literary success. So this year we're profiling all of the shortlisted writers - who are they, what are their inspirations and what exactly does being an "African Writer" mean to them. Today we meet the South African writer Ken Barris.
Richard Hawley
The guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer based near Sheffield in the north of England talks to Mark Coles about music festivals, the nature of success and his personal approach to making music.
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