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"I'm not ready to become a pastiche of myself" - Kylie

Join Nikki Bedi for an interview with Kylie who tells us about her new album Kiss Me Once. Caravaggio's masterpiece, Supper at Emmaus comes to a Hong Kong shopping mall as a massive projection in an attempt to engage Hong Kong's shoppers in visual art. We meet Australia's finest virtuoso didgeridoo player, Mark Atkins who has played with everyone from Sinead O'Connor to the minimalist composer Philip Glass. We talk to Jean Yves Ollivier about the new documentary film, Plot for Peace. It's about the end of apartheid and the release of Nelson Mandela and tells his story: a French businessman known as Mr. Jacques, who worked behind the scenes with leaders from Congo to Cuba to make it possible to release Mandela. We've got a session from singer Amira Kheir. Her new album, Alsahraa mixes traditional Sudanese sounds with jazz and soul. She came into the studio with her Colombian guitarist. Artist Ai Weiwei talks about his imprisonment, part of the 大象传媒's Freedom season. With Persian speakers celebrating New Year last week, we look at censorship and Iranian Literature. Plus soprano, Catherine Bott visits a recording studio to find out how software can correct out of tune singing.

Photo shows: Kylie, Ai Weiwei (c) Robert Vos/AFP/Getty, Amira Kheir

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Mar 2014 22:06GMT

Music and featured items

  • Jean-Yves Ollivier

    The French businessman who worked to release Nelson Mandela

    Duration: 08:04

  • Hong Kong Visual Arts

    Linda Kennedy reports from Hong Kong on how the city is promoting visual art

    Duration: 04:52

  • Mark Atkins

    Interview with the virtuoso didgeridoo player from Australia

    Duration: 04:25

  • Amira Kheir

    The Sudanese singer has been hailed as the Diva of the Sudanese Desert

    Duration: 05:37

  • Ai Weiwei

    As part of the 大象传媒's Freedom Season the Chinese artist talks to HARDtalk

    Duration: 07:50

  • Iranian Literature

    Interview with Amir Cheheltan , author of Revolution Street and broadcaster Ali May

    Duration: 05:30

  • Creating Perfect Pitch

    Classical singer, Catherine Bott looks at software that can correct out of tune singing

    Duration: 06:31

  • Kylie

    The singer talks about her new album, Kiss Me Once

    Duration: 06:37

  • Kylie

    Can't Get You Out of My Head

  • Elias Lerole

    Long Trousers Kwela

  • Mark Atkins

    Bungarrow

  • Amira Kheir

    Luna

  • Cher

    Believe

  • Kylie

    Sexy Love

  • Hiroko Kuwakino

    Kinmokusei

  • Faramarz Aslani, Dariush & Ramesh

    We Are

  • Kylie

    I was Gonna Cancel

  • Kylie

    Sexy Love

Hong Kong Visual Art

Hong Kong Visual Art
Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's most important work, Supper at Emmaus, is聽unpacked prior to its installation for an exhibition in Hong Kong

Amira Kheir

Amira Kheir
Amira Kheir's second album ''Alsahraa'' is out now

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Mar 2014 22:06GMT