大象传媒

The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert

Payback
The director Jennifer Baichwal joins us to discuss her documentary film based on Canadian author Margaret Atwood's book, which looks at different types of debt around the world.

James Franco's James Dean Tribute
From Rise of the Planet of the Apes via Rebel Without a Cause, the actor and artist, curates Rebel, a multi-media homage to a classic film and its stars at MOCA. Only in California..Laura Hubber reports on a contemporary art happening

The Source
We talk to French-Romanian director Radu Mihail茅anu about his latest film, the Source, a story of a sex-strike by Muslim women in a village in North Africa. Fed-up with the hard, daily walk to collect water from a spring, they're using the only weapon they have to persuade their men to get pipes laid.

Yo Soy!
Peru's popular TV talent show is called Yo Soy! where contestants compete to best imitate - in look and sound - their musical heroes. We hear from one of the favorites who sounds like a famous late frontman from Seattle...

Naomi Benaron
Novelist Naomi Benaron (pictured) discusses her book Running The Rift, set during the Rwandan genocide and explains how, as an American writer, she approached such a sensitive and harrowing subject.

Helen Gamboa
It wasn't until she moved to the UK, that Angolan artist Helga Gamboa discovered the indigenous pottery of her birthplace, and now her own pottery is being shown in an exhibition that celebrates the art of Angola.

Lovers Rock
Producer Dennis Bovell tells us about the the soft reggae music style that was created by young Jamaican British musicians in the 1970s.

Photo: Erik Hinote

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