大象传媒

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

Monica Ali
British-Bangladeshi author Monica Ali was nominated for the prestigious Booker Prize for her first novel Brick Lane. She joins Harriett to discuss her latest novel In the Kitchen, what inspired her to set it in a busy London hotel kitchen, and why custard is pivotal to the story.

French Lighting Designer
Herve Descottes, a Frenchman based in New York, is one of the world's premiere lighting designers. He has worked all over the globe, we sent our reporter Andrew Purcell to meet him in New York.

Madness and Modernity
Harriett pays a visit to a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London that charts the relationship between mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900.

RadioKijada
On a mission to bring Afro-Peruvian music up to date Radiokijada mix traditional rhythms with modern electronica. They discuss their new album which features percussion on the jaw bone of a donkey.