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Last broadcast on Thu, 12 Aug 2010, 13:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
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The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Bidisha.
In today's programme: we find out why design is so big in Seoul, Bidisha talks to actress and director Cora Bissett about her play Roadkill, Eva Dadrian discovers the joys of Ramadan soap operas and Danish writer Lars Husum talks about his debut novel My Friend Jesus Christ.
Seoul, Design Capital
Photo shows Songdo city in Seoul, South Korea.
Seoul is this year's World Design Capital - an award granted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. It's also just been designated a UNESCO City of Design. The BBC's John Sudworth is there to tell us why design is so big in Seoul and just what's going on?
Roadkill - Cora Bissett
Photo of Mery Ojelade in Roadkill by Tom Morozzo.
This play about sex trafficking has just opened at the Edinburgh Festival. From Cora Bissett it uses video, animation and live performance to explore the experience of one young woman from Benin City looking for a way to support her family. Bidisha talks to Cora about the play which is performed not in a traditional theatre but in a bus and small apartment.
Ramadan Soap Operas
During Ramadan in Egypt, after Iftar, the main evening meal is over, many Egyptians gather around the television to watch specially scheduled Egyptian TV soaps. Eva Dadrian snaffles a place of the sofa to report for The Strand.
Lars Husum on his debut novel My Friend Jesus Christ
Danish writer, Lars Husum, has been hailed for his powerful, humorous and brilliantly rough tone in his new novel My Friend Jesus Christ.
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