大象传媒

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

Queer India Anthology
Minal Hajratwala discusses her anthology of stories about contemporary queer life in India.

Lincoln
Any Spielberg movie is a big deal. When it's about an American icon - President Abraham Lincoln - and is released so close to an election, it becomes even more monumental. But is it any good?

Judy Chicago
We meet the artist, writer and activist whose work set the agenda for women's art over the past five decades.

Kurt Elling
Everyone of his 9 albums has been Grammy nominated, and his latest is made up of songs written by the composers who worked out of New York's Brill Building in the '50s and '60s.

Still Life Versus Moving Image
Are moving images taking over from still ones? And, if they are, are we losing the ability to focus on pictures that don't leap about? The Strand debates the merit of still vs moving with the curator William Ewing and the neuroscientist Kristine Krug.

Light from the Middle East
As a major exhibition of photography from and about the Middle East opens in London, Anna meets three of the artists from the region.

Max Richter
How can a modern composer make a 300 year old piece of music - that everybody knows - sound new and 21st century? Max Richter has recomposed Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Tatiana Salem Levy
Tatiana Salem Levy is one of the rising stars of Brazilian literature. Her first novel - A chava de casa - won the Sao Paolo Prize for Literature. She talks about the prospects of Brazilian authors finally reaching a wider global audience.

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