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Last broadcast on Wed, 28 Jul 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.
In today's programme: the new Angelina Jolie film Salt, South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, comic book dictators in Uruguay and Jakob Dylan.
SALT
Photo c/o Getty Images.
Angelina Jolie returns as James Bond in her new film Salt. She plays a woman determined to single-handedly save the world from nuclear annihilation. The newspapers in the US have been mostly full of ecstatic praise for the film's release there. Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly reviews it.
ZWELETHU MTHETHWA
Untitled (from Interior series), 2000. Photo courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
Zwelethu Mthethwa is one of South Africa's best known artists. His colour photographs of the residents of Paari, a settlement near Cape Town, made a point of portraying it not as a shabby shanty town but as characterised by dignity and dreams. His new exhibition at the Studio Museum, Harlem, brings together three series of photographs, Empty Beds, Interiors and Common Ground. We hear about the inspiration to compare fire damaged homes in South Africa to those in New Orleans after Katrina.
To see some of Zwelethu Mthethwa's work, click on the gallery link below.
COMIC BOOK DICTATORS
Uruguayan Dictatorship in comic book form. Four fictional stories based on real facts lived by leftist militants who were imprisoned, tortured or exiled during the military government that ruled the country between 1973-1985.
Two years ago the authors published a comic book novel on The last days of the Graf Spee. This is the comic book breaking new ground in Uruguay.
JAKOB DYLAN
The Strand interviews Bob Dylan's son, Jakob, who is touring the UK and Ireland promoting his latest album. He talks about 'Women And Country' and his famous singer-songwriter father.
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