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Nihad Sirees

The Syrian writer Nihad Sirees talks about his new novel The Silence and the Roar

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Barbara Hannigan

Operatic soprano Barbara Hannigan is always pushing at the boundaries

• 18 mins

Irrawaddy Literary Festival

We're in Burma for the country's first-ever literary festival.

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Peter Zumthor

Celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor talks about designing buildings with integrity

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Woody Guthrie

A previously unknown novel by US folk singer Woody Guthrie has just been published.

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Ice Age Art

Ice Age Art:Arrival of the Modern Mind is a new exhibition at the British Museum in London

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A Liar's Autobiography

The Monty Python team are reunited with their deceased colleague in this animated film

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A different look at love with American psychologist Barbara L Fredrickson.

A different look at love with American psychologist Barbara L Fredrickson.

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World Premiere of Speranza (Hope) by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

A new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage - Speranza (Hope) - has its World Premiere in London.

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Stone Dreams

Akram Aylisli's novella has sparked a hate campaign in his native Azerbaijan.

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Salif Keita

Salif Keita, one of Africa's biggest musical stars talks about his new album Talé

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Intizar Husain - Basti

One of the finest works written in Urdu and nominated for a Man Booker International prize

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Detroit: Music City

Detroit is a city in spiralling decline. Can music and the arts help to revive it?

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Romanian Cinema

The new generation of Romanian film makers.

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International Playwriting Competiton - Meet the winners

We hear from the winners of the 2012 International Playwriting Competition.

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Ibrahim Maalouf

Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf brings Arabic scales to 1950s style jazz.

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Indian film director Anurag Kashyap

Indian film director Anurag Kashyap and the Perunika Trio.

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Haneke produces Mozart Opera

Award winning producer of Amour, Michael Haneke directs Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte in Madrid.

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YouTube Charts

What does the incorporation of YouTube plays to calculate chart positions mean for music?

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Comedy at the ballot box

Henning Wehn examines the relationship between stand-up comedy and politics.

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Mexican Car Poolers

The photographer Alejandro Cartagena spent over a year photographing Mexican car poolers

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Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

The two American songwriters talk to us about their current release Child Ballads.

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FESPACO: The 23rd African film festival comes to a close

The 23rd FESPACO pan-African film festival, held in Burkina Faso, has just ended.

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Latest novel from Malaysian author Tash Aw

Malaysian author Tash Aw's latest novel, Five Star Billionaire.

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The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft

Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft - minus the hotpants

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Amish Tripathi

How Amish Tripathi's trilogy about Lord Shiva led to the largest book advance in India.

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Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

A review of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - clever satire or simple bad taste?

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Music from Iceland

Fiona Talkington visits the Dark Music Days Festival in Iceland.

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Papal Arts Legacy

We discover how much Benedict XVI was keen to support the contemporary arts.

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African Rock

We examine the trend for western rock producers to work with prominent African musicians.

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