Arts In Action Episodes Episode guide
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'Cultural Revolution' in Venezuela
President Hugo ChΓ΅vez's arts policy comes under fire
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South Korea's Japan Problem
A pop video is re-igniting ill feeling between the two countries
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Is Nadine Gordimer a Racist?
Teachers attack the South African Nobel Laureate's novel 'July's People'
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Iranian Art Debuts in Europe
London's Barbican Gallery welcomes the country's contemporary art
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Turkmenistan Clamps Down on the Arts
President Saparmurat Niyazov orders the opera house to be closed
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Mexico's Man of Mystery
How Subcomandante Marcos became an icon of resistance
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Philippines Film Censor Condemns Government
Nicanor Tiongson has resigned in protest at 'religious bigotry'
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Tierney Gearon in Hot Water
The US photographer falls foul of Britain's Vice Squad
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Hollywood Writers' Strike Looms
Studios are struggling to avoid industrial action from 1 May
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The Taliban Attacks the Arts
Statues in Afghanistan are deemed 'un-Islamic'
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Adieu Charles Trenet
France mourns its 'singing fool'
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The End of Napster
A judge in California closes down the music download site
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'Ulysses' Film Opens At Last
Ireland overturns ban after 34 years
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Drawing Dissent
The importance of satirical cartoons in southern Africa
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The Verdi Centenary
The composer is 'part of the country's very identity' says Italy's culture minister
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The Cairo Book Fair Hits Trouble
The Muslim Brotherhood attacks the 'pornographic' content of state-published books
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Uproar in Bombay
Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry
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The Second Harlem Renaissance
A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion
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Why 2000 Belonged to the Net
A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts
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Nigerian State Bans Film
Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law
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Iran Loses Culture Tsar
Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani
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A Russian Puzzle
'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize
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Klimt Works Returned
An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners
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Rwanda Rediscovers Music
South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali
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Kidnapper Releases Indian Film Star
Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days
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Culture Minister Slammed in Iran
'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign
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Berlin Opera Houses Fight Unification
Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls
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Austria Remembers
Vienna's Holocaust Memorial opens
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China's Nobel Milestone
Gao Xingjian is the country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Nazi Art Theft Forum
Thrity-seven countries agree to return artworks to their rightful owners