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Searching for redemption with author Dinaw Mengestu

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In today’s show, the award winning, acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu talks to Eve Jackson about identity, love, isolation and why his book is NOT an immigrant novel. Also in the programme: the political power and escapism of Pakistan's music scene, and why run-of-the-mill restaurants are so pre-recession.

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Nina Skarra, Norway's first 'haute couture' designer

In this edition, Eve Jackson receives the first Norway's 'haute couture' designer Nina Skarra. Focus on the event "Home" by Yann Arthus Bertrand, and the giant video games fair in Los Angeles, the E3.
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.

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