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Stars, drugs and death: Rock'r'Roll circus is out

Today on Culture, we transport you back to the late 1960s, and the iconic Paris nightclub the Rock’n’Roll Circus. For three action-packed years the club became famous for the celebrities that changed their plans to pass through its doors… And it’s there –not in his bathtub- that Jim Morrison died… according to the club’s founder Sam Bernett. He tells Catherine Nicholson about HIS version of the Doors’ singer’s death, and more, in today’s Culture show.

Slideshow: Behind the scenes
09/06/2009 - CULTURE

A very serious thing: humor and literature

In this edition: the revival of musicals on Broadway, home made fashion - people making their own clothes and the literary chronicle by Augustin Trapenard, about humor in literature.
03/06/2009 - CULTURE

Tony Allen, the master drummer on France 24

In this edition: Eve Jackson hosts master drummer Tony Allen, co creator of Afrobeat presenting his new album "Secret Agent" and the return of godfather of punk, Iggy Pop.
02/06/2009 - CULTURE

Tintin and his creator back home

In this edition: The Hergé museum in Belgium, the new life of Berlin wall, the Pasarela fashion festival in Romania, and snails and Nigerian gastronomy.
01/06/2009 - CULTURE

Legendary Domingo follows the mythical Cyrano

In this edition: the legend Placido Domingo embodies Cyrano, rabbit bins by Paul Smith, galleries in Iraq, Ibsen the painter, and the garden's international festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire.
29/05/2009 - CULTURE

The most British of French fashion designers

In this edition of the culture magazine: Roland Mouret, a French fashion designer who dresses the stars and a young American designer turns books into purses.

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