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19/03/2009

Your daily journey into global arts, culture and entertainment, with Harriett Gilbert and Mark Coles.

We talk to Havana Marking, director of the prize-winning documentary Afghan Star about the singing contest in Afghanistan that is the country's most popular television programme.

We look at the origins of the Japanese comic work Manga at a new exhibition of incredible woodblock prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi one of the greatest print artists of the 19th Century. Paul Gravett shows us around the 150 artefacts at London's Royal Academy of Arts

American historian Samuel Kassow talks to Harriett about his book Who Will Write Our History - a detailed study into the hidden Onyeg Shabes archives which were buried in the Warsaw Ghetto.

26 minutes

Last on

Fri 20 Mar 2009 15:32GMT

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  • Thu 19 Mar 2009 22:32GMT
  • Fri 20 Mar 2009 03:32GMT
  • Fri 20 Mar 2009 09:32GMT
  • Fri 20 Mar 2009 12:32GMT
  • Fri 20 Mar 2009 15:32GMT