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To mark Halloween, Duran Duran have released Danse Macabre, a 鈥渟pooky concept鈥� album. Samira talks to Simon Le Bon and John Taylor about working with Nile Rogers, covering The Specials鈥� Ghost Town and taking pop music seriously.

This evening Filkin鈥檚 Drift play the last of almost 50 concerts, concluding their two month that has seen them travel 870 miles鈥�on foot. The duo has walked from gig to gig, carrying their instruments. As they reach Chepstow they tell Samira about their approach to sustainable touring and how this connects with ancient Welsh bardic tradition.

Born in 1923, the artist Dobrivoje Beljkasic found refuge in Bristol after the outbreak of the Bosnian War. His daughter Dee Smart and author Priscilla Morris celebrate his life and legacy on the centenary of his birth, marked by a new exhibition in Sarajevo.

George Orwell鈥檚 seminal Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to occupy a lauded, and sometimes controversial, position in political discourse and popular culture three-quarters of a century after it was first written. Sandra Newman discusses reimagining the story from the perspective of Winston Smith鈥檚 underwritten lover in her new novel, Julia.