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Last broadcast on Thu, 14 Oct 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 Anna McNamee.
On today's programme: Howard Jacobson, Berlin Tacheles, Restrepo and Ai Weiwei.
Howard Jacobson photo by Stuart Wilson/Getty Images.
Howard Jacobson
Novelist Howard Jacobson has described his winning of this year's Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question - a comic story of love, loss and being Jewish -as 'beyond belief'. Anna McNamee talks to him about what it means to win.
Berlin's Tacheles art centre under threat
A large building in the former communist east side of Berlin, the Tacheles arts centre started off as a squat for artists. Over the years, it has become one of Berlin's most famous cultural icons and is visited by thousands of visitors every year. But as Alexa Dvorson reports, if developers and the banks get their way the centre could soon be sold off at auction.
Restrepo
Sebastian and Tim in Afghanistan. © Tim Hetherington.
Director Tim Hetherington talks about his award-winning documentary film that follows one platoon for a year in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan. A winner of this year's Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it's already being hailed as one of the best war films of recent times.
Restrepo
Ai Weiwei
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.
Anna talks to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei about his new installation at London's Tate Modern, where he's carpeted the floor of the Turbine Hall with 100 million sunflower seeds made of porcelain.
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