Diana Damrau; Farah Nuruddin; Dame Helen Mirren
Nikki Bedi presents her pick of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ arts broadcasting highlights, which this week include soprano Diana Damrau, author Farah Nuruddin and actress Helen Mirren
Nikki Bedi presents her pick of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ arts broadcasting highlights.
Helen Mirren talks about playing a colonel in a new thriller about drone warfare, Eye in the Sky; Moroccan musician Ahmed Soultan explains how he invented βAfro-bianβ music; poet and rapper Kate Tempest tells us about the experience of writing her first novel and the Nepalese band Night treat us to music featuring traditional instruments including the Leaf!
The Somalian author Farah Nuruddin discusses sex and the veil; thereβs a chance to brush up your knowledge of Shakespeare on film with critic Phillip Bergson; Jamaican dub poet Jean βBintaβ Breeze explains the importance of verandahs in Jamaican culture and the superstar soprano Diana Damrau discusses the challenge of singing coloratura while committing murder and having a miscarriage on stage.
Montage: l-r Diana Damrau (Credit: Β© Royal Opera House. Photographer: Stephen Cummiskey); Nuruddin Farah (Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images); Dame Helen Mirren
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Helen Mirren
British actress Dame Helen Mirren discusses her new film Eye In The Sky
Duration: 05:39
Ahmed Soultan
Moroccan singer Ahmed Soultan on his pioneering sound, fusing styles from across Africa
Duration: 04:49
Kate Tempest
British poet and rapper Kate Tempest on her first novel, The Bricks That Built The Houses
Duration: 06:03
Nepalese folk band Night
Night perform 'Ani Ukali Sangai Orali' and lead singer Jason Kunwar talks about the band
Duration: 04:45
Farah Nuruddin
Somalian author Nuruddin Farah speaks about his classic novel 'Maps'
Duration: 04:46
Shakespeare on film
British film critic Phillip Bergson discusses Shakespeare on screen
Duration: 07:57
Jean "Binta" Breeze
Jamaican dub poet and storyteller Jean "Binta" Breeze on her new book, The Verandah Poems
Duration: 04:53
Diana Damrau
German soprano Diana Damrau on her role in a controversial version of Lucia di Lammermoor
Broadcasts
- Sat 16 Apr 2016 15:06GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service US Public Radio
Sun 17 Apr 2016 14:06GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Core- Mon 18 Apr 2016 06:06GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service US Public Radio
- Mon 18 Apr 2016 23:06GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Core, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service ANR, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service News Internet & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service US Public Radio
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