大象传媒

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

Bob Dylan

Legendary musician Bob Dylan released his 33rd studio album Together Through Life this week. Esteemed Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin casts his ear across the collection of 10 songs and gives us his opinion on whether the great singer-songwriter still has something to say.

Lima Cultural Tour

Award winning Peruvian film maker Josue Mendez takes the 大象传媒's Dan Collyns on a night out in Lima.

Anita Nair

Anita Nair is one of India's best-known female writers, who exposes the truth of women's lives in India with wit and humour. In our ongoing series of essays to mark the Indian elections, she considers what it is to be a woman writing in India today in Courage Under Fire.

Epigonion

Powerful grid computers have revived a musical instrument that was last heard in Ancient Greece. Called the Epigonion, it's a 48 stringed instrument named after its inventor Epigonus. Whilst no complete example survives, the instrument, somewhat similar to a harp, had a soundboard and was plucked like a guitar. We hear an extract of the new instrument and talk to the team putting together a collection of forgotten instruments for a Lost Sounds Orchestra project.