Philip Glass, Bapsi Sidhwa, Julia Wolfe
Philip Glass on his life and music and novelist Bapsi Sidhwa on Pakistan and Partition.
Composer Philip Glass talks about his life and music. Julia Wolfe, winner of this year's music Pulitzer Prize, discusses her composing techniques. One hundred years on from the publication of Metamorphosis does Kafka still have something to say to us?
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first black person to win a Pulitzer prize, is remembered by her daughter. Leading Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa reflects on growing up during Partition and how it fed into her comedy novel The Crow Eaters. We examine the complicated relationship between Pakistan, its politics and the guitar.
As the 68th Cannes Film Festival starts, critic Phillip Bergson gives us an aperitif of the likely filmic highs and lows. And, music producer Mike Hurst explains how he created the distinctive sound of the Cat Stevens' song First Cut is the Deepest.
(Photo: Philip Glass 漏 Cindy Ord/Getty Images, Bapsi Sidhwa 漏 Daunt Books, Julia Wolfe 漏 Peter Serling)
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