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The Arts Hour: Stephen King

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08/06/2013

Stephen King

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Stephen King

Horror writer Stephen King says "I'm afraid of losing my mind"

Horror master Stephen King says "I'm afraid of losing my mind"

What scares horror maestro Stephen King? Also, India's Nightingales - the legendary trilling playback, singing sisters Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar and how South African mixed-race rapper Jaak is reclaiming the Afrikaans language for hip hop.

German diva, Ute Lemper, sings the poetry of Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda and dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, reimagines Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring, one hundred years after its riotous debut. 

We explore two separate exhibitions in Australia and Japan which try to unpick recent history and get to the truth of events, whether they are riots, Tsunamis or nuclear leaks using art. And, film director Olivier Assayas on his new movie Apres Mai, about the 1968 riots in Paris.

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