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Front Row: Now You See Me; Henning Mankell; African art at Tate Modern

Now You See Me; Henning Mankell; African art at Tate Modern

01/07/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Now You See Me; Henning Mankell; African art at Tate Modern

Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including Julia Donaldson's Cultural Exchange.

Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson, including Now You See Me, Wallander author Henning Mankell, African art at the Tate, and Julia Donaldson's Cultural Exchange.

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Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman and Jesse Eisenberg star in a new film Now You See Me, in which four illusionists pull off bank heists during their elaborate shows and reward the audiences with the money. But the FBI and Interpol are on their case. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews.

The Swedish writer Henning Mankell is best known for his series of novels featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander, but this accounts for only a fraction of his work, which includes books for children, plays, and novels set in Africa, where he spends half his time. Henning Mankell discusses his latest novel, A Treacherous Paradise, set in Mozambique, and how his Wallander series has tended to overshadow his other output.

For the first time in its history, Tate Modern is focussing on the rarely told story of African and Arabic modernism. Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi gets his first major exhibition in the UK, with a retrospective that spans five decades and over one hundred paintings. Meanwhile Benin-born artist Meschac Gaba has created a temporary museum of contemporary African art inside the gallery, complete with its own shop.

In Cultural Exchange, Julia Donaldson, the former Children's Laureate, talks about the stories by American writer Arnold Lobel. Best known for his series Frog and Toad which are for young children beginning to read, Julia chooses and reads from Grasshopper on the Road.

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