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American singer songwriter Kelis, famous for the overt sexuality of her youthful performances, explains how cooking has inspired her new album. Can pop and feminism ever go together? Radio 1's Gemma Cairney investigates. We hear some astounding poetry from a new generation of female poets from Africa and its diaspora. Felicity Finch, star of the British radio soap opera The Archers, travels to Rwanda and meets the actress who puts her terrifying childhood experiences in the genocide to positive use in the hugely popular Rwandan radio soap Urunana. Three years on from the 2011 Egyptian uprising, what’s happening to the arts? Eva Dadrian reports from Cairo. As this year's happy Oscar winners decide where to display their golden statuettes, we hear about the daredevil performers who will never get nominated because Hollywood would rather keep them secret. And there's a performance of Ravel's Bolero as you’ve never heard it before. We discover how the impressionist painter Monet had cataracts to thank for some of his most vibrant water lilliesJoin Nikki Bedi for all this and more in The Arts Hour.

Photo shows: Kelis (c) ´óÏó´«Ã½, Claude Monet (c) Henry Guttman/Getty, Shlomo (c) ´óÏó´«Ã½