Abderrahmane Sissako, George Clooney, Saud Alsanousi
How to age gracefully according to George Clooney, director Abderrahmane Sissako on his Oscar nominated film Timbuktu and literary postcard from author Saud Alsanousi.
George Clooney talks about ageing gracefully and taking opportunities while he still has them. We highlight some of the great independent films from this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Abderrahmane Sissako talks about his Oscar nominated new film Timbuktu depicting rural life under Sharia law. Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who has just won the big Man International Booker Prize for Fiction, tells us why he likes to write (very) long sentences. Sierra Leone-born artist and engineer Abu Bakarr Mansaray shows us round his exhibition of futuristic machines at the Venice Biennale.
Also, legendary singer Art Garfunkel tells us about the painful process of recovering his damaged voice, ‘his identity’, as he describes it. From Kuwait we have a literary postcard from Saud Alsanousi whose recent novel looks at the lives of foreign workers in Arab cultures. And, from a show in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s brilliant documentary archive, former astronaut Christopher Ferguson describes waking up daily in space to the cheery classic song Can’t Take my Eyes off You, as crew onboard the Nasa shuttle Endeavour.
(Photo: Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014 Les Films du Worso, Credit: Dune Vision. George Clooney Credit: Oddyo/ Disney. Saud Alsanousii, courtesy of Saud.)
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Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi’s literary postcard
Duration: 04:26
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Music in Space: "Can’t Take My Eyes off You"
Duration: 04:51
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Art Garfunkel: Recovering His Voice
Duration: 04:06
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George Clooney
George Clooney on ageing gracefully and taking opportunities while he still has them
Duration: 08:26
Cannes Film Festival
Phillip Bergson talks us through the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival
Duration: 06:10
Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako talks about his new film Timbuktu about rural life under Sharia law
Duration: 05:58
László Krasznahorkai
The winner of the 2015 Man International Booker Prize for Fiction
Duration: 04:09
Venice Biennale
Artist Abu Bakarr Mansaray shows us round his exhibition of futuristic machines.
Duration: 04:19
Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel on recovering his voice and 'identity'
Duration: 05:30
Saud Alsanousi
A literary postcard from Saud Alsanousi's book The Bamboo Stalk
Duration: 04:33
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Former astronaut Christopher Ferguson on why that song is special to him
Duration: 03:11
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Maureen McGovern
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
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Boys Town Gang
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
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Frankie Valli
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
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The London Pops Orchestra
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
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Ke Fez
Algiers Dream
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Carpenters
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
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Andras Farkas And Ensemble
A Cloud Covers The Forest
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Damon Albarn Featuring Afel Bocoum Toumani Diabate And Friends
Spoons
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Charli xcx
Famous
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James Newton Howard
A Dark Goddamn Hole
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City Of Prague Philharmonic & Nic Raine
The Incredibles Overture
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Michael Giacchino
Primates For Life
From Planet of the Apes Soundtrack
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Wiley
Scar
Instrumental
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London Symphony Orchestra
Notte A Venezia
From Antologia Di Musica Veneziana
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- Sat 30 May 2015 11:05GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Online
- Mon 1 Jun 2015 08:05GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Online
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