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Artistic highlights of the year

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We look back at the artistic highlights of the year in this special edition of the show. We focus on artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, the 54th Venice biennale with artist Kimsooja, and Odilon Redon's nightmarish drawings. We also remember Nick Veasey's X-Ray photographs, Amos Gitai's subversive cinema installation and Daniel Buren's 'rebel' artwork.

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Paris Fashion Week
02/03/2013 - CULTURE

Paris Fashion Week

Women’s ready to wear, men’s mode and haute couture, as soon as the dust settles on one Paris fashion week, another seems to begin. 40 years since the first one took place in the city, Eve Jackson explores the world’s style capital.
Steven Spielberg Heads This Year's Cannes Film Festival Jury
28/02/2013 - CULTURE

Steven Spielberg Heads This Year's Cannes Film Festival Jury

One of the most famous filmmakers is set to lead the jury at what's probably the most prestigious film festival. In today’s show we find out how Steven Spielberg came to be the Cannes Film Festival jury president. Also on the show we’re looking at the latest internet dance craze, the Harlem Shake and the award winning author Chang Rae Lee talks to Eve Jackson about his novel "The Surrendered".
A walk down 'England’s Lane' with Joseph Connolly
27/02/2013 - CULTURE

A walk down 'England’s Lane' with Joseph Connolly

If you thought 1950s London was full of polite neighbours and cheery Cockneys, Joseph Connolly wants you to think again. The author tells Catherine Nicholson about the intrigue behind the net curtains and shopfronts in his latest novel, "England’s Lane". We also say "au revoir" to Stéphane Hessel, the WWII resistance fighter and inspirational thinker behind the 2010 essay "Indignez-vous". Finally, we check out a movie effort to reconcile Israelis and Palestinians.
Meet one of the world's most successful writers
26/02/2013 - CULTURE

Meet one of the world's most successful writers

Eve Jackson speaks to British author Ken Follett about how a broken-down car inspired him to write, what it's like being married to a politician and about adapting his best-selling novels "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End" into a TV series.
Friday Film Show
22/02/2013 - CULTURE

Friday Film Show

Today we’re talking about Afghan writer and director, Atiq Rahimi's, poetic and politically charged allegory "The Patience Stone." Also on the programme the Oscar winning French actor Jean Dujardin teams up with British bad boy Tim Roth in the new spy thriller Mobius and Disney's "Chimpanzees" give us a rare look at our cousins.

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