Abel Selaocoe, Billie Holiday, Edoardo Ponti on Sophia Loren
South African cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe's musical influences. Film director Eduardo Ponti on working with his mother Sophia Loren. New Billie Holiday documentary reviewed.
The cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe grew up in a township in the south of Johannesburg and creates music that draws on classical, African and contemporary music. He talks to Samira about As You Are, the music he鈥檚 composed for Opera North鈥檚 sound-walks in Leeds and about the celebration of music from Africa which he鈥檚 leading in collaboration with the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra at this year's London Jazz Festival.
At the age of 86, film legend Sophia Loren stars in her first film in almost a decade, The Life Ahead. Directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, she plays a former sex worker who looks after a Senegalese migrant boy. Edoardo talks to Samira about directing his mother sixty years after she won a Best Actress Oscar for Two Women.
Billie is a new online documentary about the jazz singer Billie Holiday which uses material collected by the journalist Linda Kipnack Kuehl: archive, colourisation techniques and previously unheard recordings of interviews with people who knew her. Tega Okiti reviews.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Hilary Dunn
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Abel Selaocoe
Abel's Jazz Takeover at the 聽from 20 - 27 Nov and also broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 3 on 20 Nov at 7.30 pm - 9.45 pm
Main image: Abel Selaocoe
Photo credit: Matt Davis
Billie
Photo credit: Don Peterson
Billie is available digitally from 13 Nov on Barbican including a live聽聽on 15 Nov as part of EFG London Jazz festival. It will be in cinemas in Cardiff听补苍诲听Glasgow and will be聽available聽to buy on聽听补苍诲听聽16 Nov
Edouardo Ponti
Photo credit:聽
Regine De Lazzaris
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The Life Ahead聽directed by聽Edouardo Ponti streams on Netflix from Fri 13 Nov
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