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Toni Stuart, Rabindranath Tagore, Glastonbury Festival

鈥淏ones are never just bones, they are someone鈥檚 story鈥 - Toni Stuart

Lizo Mzimba reports on the highs and lows of the Glastonbury Festival, film star Sharmila Tagore celebrates the work of her great uncle, India's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and we find out about the Nigerian TV puppet show that's gone viral. Shabnam Mahmood brings news from the London Indian Film Festival, including a new film about the slave trade, Sold, starring Gillian Anderson and we discover the 70 year old secret of the Kalamazoo Gals and the Gibson Guitars they made in the Second World War. There's a literary tour of the city that inspired Wonderland, Narnia and Middle Earth - Oxford, and we meet a firebrand South African performance poet and find out what pineapples tell us about art history.

(Photo shows: Toni Stuart, Rabindranath Tagore (c) Hulton Archive/Getty, Dolly Parton (c) Leon Neal/Getty)

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 6 Jul 2014 21:06GMT

Music and featured items

  • Commonwealth Poetry Postcards

    A poet from every competing nation and territory has been invited to send in a poem

    Duration: 06:51

  • Glastonbury Festival

    Lizo Mzimba talks about his highlights from this year's festival

    Duration: 04:44

  • Kalamazoo Gals

    The guitar craftswomen who were erased from history

    Duration: 05:51

  • Harvest

    We find out what pineapples tell us about art history in a new exhibition

    Duration: 05:32

  • Rabindranath Tagore

    A celebration of the poetry of the Nobel laureate by Sharmila Tagore and Sangeeta Datta

    Duration: 09:34

  • Nigerian TV Satire

    Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on a popular satirical TV show in Nigeria

    Duration: 04:44

  • London Indian Film Festival

    Shabnam Mahmood tells us what's happening in Indian film beyond Bollywood

    Duration: 03:56

  • Oxford Literary Tour

    We take a tour of places that inspired some classic children's literature

    Duration: 08:14

  • Dave Brubeck

    Take Five

  • Metallica

    Sad But True

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

  • Dolly Parton

    Lay Your Hands on Me

    Supporting Artist: Richie Sambora.
  • Scott Joplin

    Pineapple Rag

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Dam Mast Qalandar Mast Mast

  • Kaushiki Chakrabarty

    Raag Abho

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Mustt Mustt

    Remix Artist: Massive Attack.
  • Sammy Fain

    Alice in Wonderland

    Composer: Bob Hilliard. Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    An Oxford Elegy

  • Anne Stephens

    You're a Wondrous Cheshire Cat

Harvest at The Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia

Harvest at The Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia

This new exhibition at looks at the way that images of food and art history are intertwined听

Image: Alexander Coosemans, Flanders 1627-89 'Still Life' (GOMA)

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Jul 2014 16:06GMT
  • Sun 6 Jul 2014 21:06GMT