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Last broadcast on Tue, 29 Mar 2011, 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 Harriett Gilbert.
The artist, Hamra Abbas talks about her award-winning concept The Woman in Black, the latest production from Modjgan Hashemian and Mike Nicol, on the latest book Black Heart.
Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2011 Winner Hamra Abbas
The artist talks about her award-winning concept The Woman in Black What does her super-heroine tell us about Abbas' view of the world today and the place of women in it?
Iranian dance
Dance is banned in Iran in public but a choreographer has found a way to let Iranian dancers perform on stage, unnoticed by the censors - via skype and video in a theatre in Germany. Abby D'Arcy reports from the premiere in Berlin of 'Don't Move', the latest production from Modjgan Hashemian.
Mike Nichol
Cape Town is the setting for a trilogy of hard-boiled crime novels by Mike Nicol. His latest, Black Heart, has just been published, and we talk to the author.
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Mon 28 Mar 201122:32
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Tue 29 Mar 201103:32
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Tue 29 Mar 201109:32
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Tue 29 Mar 201113:32
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