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The Burial at Thebes - the opera

Nobel Prize winning poets Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott turn Greek tragedy into opera

Two Nobel Prize winning poets, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott, turn Greek tragedy into the opera The Burial at Thebes: reviewing The Kautokeino Rebellion, a Norwegian film based on the 1852 Kautokeino riots in response to exploitation of the Sami people: discussing 30 Years of Solitude, an exhibition of photography and film by Iran’s foremost female artists with its curator Faryar Javaherian.

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23 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project