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Arthur Phillips talks obsession and musical passion

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In today’s show: there are few limits to his imagination – Eve Jackson meets Arthur Phillips, the man called one of the best authors in America. Also on the programme France returns 20 mummified Maori heads to New Zealand and thrills, adventures and bromance in Sherlock Holmes the sequel.

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Film Focus
12/04/2013 - CULTURE

Film Focus

In today’s show we meet French actress Kalki Koechlin, who’s making a name for herself in India’s multi billion euro film industry. Also on the show there's Wedded Bliss, and then there's "I Give it a Year", the film that’s infusing realism into the rom com. Plus we enter the enchanted universe of French director Jacques Demy who brought the musical to France.
THE Female Filmmaker
11/04/2013 - CULTURE

THE Female Filmmaker

On today’s show the director Margarethe Von Trotta talks to Eve Jackson about her film 'Hannah Arendt', being called one of the world's most important feminist filmmakers and what it’s like to be compared to Ingmar Bergman. Also on the programme, the artist who makes the familiar seem strange, Anne Deleporte talks about her work being shown at the Visconti Gallery in Paris and at the contemporary art fair 'Drawing Now Paris'.
'Beautiful Africa'
10/04/2013 - CULTURE

'Beautiful Africa'

With Daman Albarn and Paul McCartney as fans, it’s no wonder she’s one of Africa's leading musical artists. On today’s show Eve Jackson meets Malian singer Rokia Traoré. Also on the programme the award-winning author Susan Fletcher talks about her quietly beautiful book "The Silver Dark Sea" which has just been translated into French.
The Texan Conductor Making Waves in Europe
09/04/2013 - CULTURE

The Texan Conductor Making Waves in Europe

Today’s guest, John Axelrod, is probably the only conductor working today who was previously a rock'n'roll talent scout for a record company discovering the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins, and the head of a wine firm. He has performed with some of the world's leading orchestras. His most recent appointment is Chief Conductor of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, here in France.
The Artists Who Can Control Time
09/04/2013 - CULTURE

The Artists Who Can Control Time

Ireland's foremost new media talents Cleary and Connolly join us in the studio to talk about their new exhibition "Look Both Ways" at the Centre Culturel Irlandais here in Paris. Also, a new show explores the influential work of French artist Eugene Boudin, and we take a trip to Basel where art from one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century, Ferdinand Hodler, is on display.

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