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Maya Angelou

Why Maya Angelou fell out with Billie Holiday over childcare.

Maya Angelou questions Billie Holiday's skills as a childminder; bestselling crime writer Donna Leon on why tourists are ruining live music in Venice; superstar photographer Sebastaio Salgado on hanging out with the seals on South Georgia; Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez on the art of the good remake; writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on why US attitudes to race are weird when you're an outsider; Pakistani author Nadeem Aslam on the growing number of casualties from US drone attacks PLUS indigenous art in Haiti and Australia and why Indonesia says 'yes' to death metal, but 'no' to Lady Gaga.

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50 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 Apr 2013 19:05GMT

Chapters

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her new novel Americanah

    Duration: 06:18

  • Haiti's Resistance Artists create street sculptures

    Duration: 05:00

  • Director Fede Alvarez talks to Mark Kermode about his remake of Evil Dead

    Duration: 04:03

  • Rhonagh's Download

    Duration: 04:06

  • Sean Rafferty talks to novel Donna Leon

    Duration: 10:31

  • Maya Angelou, who has just celebrated her 85th birthday, reflects on her life and career

    Duration: 05:02

  • Gary Younge talks to some US prison inmates from the 1960s and early 1970s who were allowed to form bands and produce LPs

    Duration: 03:59

  • Drama critic, Jesse Green talks about the winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes

    Duration: 04:52

  • Debil Debil is an exhibition that combines works by some of Australia's most provocative indigenous artists

    Duration: 03:23

  • Nadeem Aslam talks to Nihal about his book The Blind Man's Garden

    Duration: 04:35

  • The Brazilian photographer, Sebastiao Salgado has just opened a new exhibition, Genesis, at the Natural History Museum in London

    Duration: 04:34

Broadcasts

  • Sat 20 Apr 2013 12:05GMT
  • Sun 21 Apr 2013 00:05GMT
  • Sun 21 Apr 2013 19:05GMT