Latest update: 01/05/2012

Reggae royalty

With a career spanning 50 years and 25 million albums sold, Jimmy Cliff is perhaps the greatest reggae star alive today. In this show, Eve Jackson retraces his half-century of success, from the film "The Harder They Come" - which brought reggae to an international audience - to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his new album "Re:Birth". To top it off, he plays live at the end of the show.

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Acknowledgments:

Many thanks to The Walt Disney Company for “The Lion King” film images. “The Lion King 3D” is currently showing in cinemas worldwide.

“Hakuna Mata” as interpreted by Jimmy Cliff & Lebo M. features on the album “Rhythm of the Pride Lands”.

Many thanks also to Potemkine Films for “The Harder They Come” film images.

Eve Jackson

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Slideshow: Behind the scenes

21/05/2013 - CULTURE

The film that was said to be too gay for Hollywood has reached the Croisette in Cannes. We look at Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra", starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. Also on the show: Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad on his new film "Omar", hope in the Middle East and Cannes.

20/05/2013 - CULTURE

Flops, tramps and cartoonists in Cannes

We check out French director Guillaume Canet's English language debut "Blood Ties", starring Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen. Also, Eve Jackson meets "Borgman" director Alex Van Warmerdam, whose film is the first Dutch competition entry in 38 years. And Cat Nicholson speaks to the Cannes cartoonists who want to change the world.

20/05/2013 - CULTURE

100 Years of Indian Film!

Today we wish happy birthday to Indian cinema! Eve Jackson speaks to the directors Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap, who have come together to make the anthology film Bombay Talkies, plus a Cannes day in the life of an Indian superstar.

19/05/2013 - CULTURE

On the shrink's couch in Cannes

Benicio Del Toro gets on the couch in Arnaud Desplechin's psychotherapy drama, Jimmy P. Also on the programme, Israeli director Ari Folman talks about his trippy, part live action, part animation film 'The Congress.' Plus Cat Nicholson shows us Cannes by night.

18/05/2013 - CULTURE

The gritty side of Cannes

Cannes cannot exist on glamour alone and in today's show we talk about two competition films that look at the darker side of life. Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi talks about 'The Past' while we also dissect the extreme and raw violence in the Mexican movie 'Heli.'