Damian Lewis, Laurie Anderson, Ayad Akhtar
Damian Lewis on why we should watch Billions, artist Laurie Anderson on dogs and drone, and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar on his new play The Invisible.
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar talks about money, culture and religion in his new play The Invisible Hand. We hear news from the Cannes film festival and we find out what Shakespeare means to South Africa. Damian Lewis tells us why we should be watching Billions and novelist Leye Adenle reports on the Nigerian literary scene. Performance artist Laurie Anderson discusses dogs and drone sounds and we find out why musical repetition is so appealing.
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Cannes Film Festival
Film critic, Lisa Nesselson bring us news from the festival
Duration: 08:33
Shakespeare in South Africa
Writer Nadia Davids talks to South Africans about what Shakespeare means today
Duration: 05:24
Ayad Akhtar
The Pakistani American actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright discusses his play
Duration: 05:54
Turner Prize Shortlist
Will Gompetz sums up the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize
Duration: 03:07
Damian Lewis
The British actor discusses his new American series, Billions
Duration: 05:19
Postcard from Lagos
Leye Adenie sends a literary postcard from Lagos
Duration: 04:11
Laurie Anderson
Performance artist, composer and musician discusses her latest work inspired by dogs
Duration: 08:31
Repetition
Tom Service finds out why repetition is hard wired into our musical brains
Duration: 04:50
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 May 2016 14:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Mon 23 May 2016 08:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except News Internet
- Mon 23 May 2016 23:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except News Internet
- Tue 24 May 2016 01:06GMT大象传媒 World Service Australasia
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