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Holburne Museum in Bath; Cannes; Staff Benda Bilili

Kirsty Lang reports as Bath's Holburne Museum re-opens; the story of the band Staff Benda Bilili, from the streets of Kinshasa to worldwide success.

Lesley Sharp and Suranne Jones play a pair of Manchester detectives in the new ITV1 series Scott and Bailey.
Crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell reviews.

Pop artist Peter Blake officially opens the 拢11.2 million extension at the Holburne Museum in Bath tomorrow. Kirsty Lang talks to him about his collection A Museum for Myself and hears from architect Eric Parry and museum director Za Sturgis.

Jason Solomons reports from the Cannes Film Festival.

At last year's Cannes festival, the film Benda Bilili received an extended standing ovation. Now out on DVD, it is a documentary about a Congolese band, Staff Benda Bilili, five of whom lost the use of their legs from childhood polio. Their visually striking performances - they sing and play seated in adapted tricycles - have been electrifying music festivals all over the world. Now they're about to begin a UK tour. Front Row talks to bandleader Papa Ricky, and to the Frenchmen film-makers who recorded the group's lives on the streets of Kinshasa, and helped set them on the path to international success.

Producer Robyn Read.

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  • Fri 13 May 2011 19:15

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