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03/10/2012

We find out why it’s taken so long for Idols South Africa to find its first black winner.

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04/10/2012

David Thomson's new book The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to us

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Iconic TV shows

Is it possible to predict what TV shows will become iconic?

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Alex Katz

Alex Katz on originality, muses and the life-enhancing power of the grudge.

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Come Together

Thirty-one artists from around the Arab world exhibit together on London's Brick Lane

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Anish Kapoor, Jake Shimabukuro and Nigeria's first ever disaster movie

A major exhibition of new works by Anish Kapoor has just opened in London.

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Mo Yan: Winner of 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

Reaction to Mo Yan as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Michael Chabon on his novel Telegraph Avenue

Anna McNamee talks to Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon.

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Busan International Film Festival 2012 in South Korea

We take a look at the highlights of this year’s Busan International Film Festival.

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Eran Riklis on his film Zaytoun

An unlikely road movie featuring an Israeli fighter pilot and a young Palestinian refugee.

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What is America?

Fifty monologues from leading US playwrights, on what America means to them

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Actor Martin Landau

We dedicate today’s Strand to the veteran Oscar-winning American actor Martin Landau.

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Director Matteo Garrone on his new film Reality

We talk to the director Matteo Garrone about his new film, Reality.

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Cloud Atlas: Bringing this ambitious book to the big screen

We hear about the new movie of David Mitchell's ambitious novel, Cloud Atlas.

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Skyfall: James Bond is back, directed by Oscar-winning Sam Mendes

James Bond is back with the latest offering directed by Oscar-winning Sam Mendes.

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Greek Theatre Attacks

A theatre in Greece has been attacked by far-right MPs for staging a controversial play.

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Islamist crackdown on music in Mali

We find out how the Islamist crackdown on music in Mali is having a dramatic effect

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26/10/2012

We speak to world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming about her upcoming role in Verdi’s Otello

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Rust and Bone

"I would die to work with Jacques Audiard" Marion Cotillard on Rust and Bone's director.

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30/10/2012

The first major exhibition devoted to the male nude is currently being staged in Vienna.

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How to Watch Films in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi film maker who's lobbying the government to legalise film clubs

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Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe has done New York and Atlanta - now in his latest novel - it's Miami's turn.

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Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk

Mark Coles talks to Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk about his novel Silent House.

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Edward Seaga - Former Jamaica Prime Minister

Edward Seaga on producing a compilation album to celebrate 50 years of Jamaican music.

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Sri Lankan music artist, Ashanthi

Ashanthi; Chinese dissident literature; and the Art that Germany wants to forget.

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American artist Jim Shaw

Artist Jim Shaw on the links between an invented religion and the economic downturn.

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Nour Festival of Arts

Dia Batal explains how she turned one of London’s most iconic rooms into a memorial.

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Still Life Versus Moving Image

Are moving images taking over from still ones?

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Diwali cinema releases

Bobby Friction reviews romantic Bollywood film Jab Tak Hai Jaan, by the late Yash Chopra.

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Stephen Spielberg's new film, Lincoln

The new movie by Stephen Spielberg takes us back to the American abolition of slavery.

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