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Front Row: Photographer Steve McCurry; spy handovers

Photographer Steve McCurry; spy handovers

09/07/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Photographer Steve McCurry; spy handovers

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry; director Ralph Ziman on dangerous film locations.

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry on his Afghanistan images, the latest offerings from new female singers, the spy handover in film and literature, and film director Ralph Ziman.

Steve McCurry has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986. He talks to Kirsty Lang about taking an iconic picture of a girl with green grey eyes whom he found in a camp in Afghanistan during the Soviet War. 

Director Ralph Ziman discusses his latest film Jerusalema, about a young man's journey from petty theft to becoming a major gang player amidst the crime and corruption of pre- and post-Apartheid Johannesburg. 

Music writer Rosie Swash delivers her verdict on new albums by three very different female artists. Singer and songwriter M.I.A. is not afraid of controversy in her songs, videos and public statements. She's releasing her third album. Eliza Doolittle - born Eliza Caird - is a British singer and former child actress with a self-titled debut album. And with a Grammy nomination under her belt, Janelle Monae is releasing her debut album The ArchAndroid, which charts the story of the American singer's alter-ego, an android named Cindi Mayweather.

Hunter Davies has been exploring the eccentricities and roles of individual collectors in creating Britain's museums, and has discovered exhibitions on everything from baked beans to radios. He compares notes with Dr. Jerzy J. Kierkuc-Bielinski, Exhibition Curator at Sir John Soane's Museum in London. 

As the latest US/Russian spy exchange takes place on the tarmac of Vienna airport, we consider the classic Cold War scenario as depicted in film and literature.

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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