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The Arts Hour: Peter Fonda, Joni Mitchell, Jostein Gaarder

Peter Fonda, Jostein Gaarder, Joni Mitchell

13/07/2014

Peter Fonda, Joni Mitchell, Jostein Gaarder

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Peter Fonda, Joni Mitchell, Jostein Gaarder

"We blew it" - Peter Fonda on the cult film Easy Rider

Nigerian artist Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze explores exclusion and dislocation in a show featuring an imagined family of ghosts, aliens and hybrid creatures. She speaks to Jenny Horrocks about the ideas behind her latest exhibition in London. In the run up to the Commonwealth Games we have a poem by postcard from Malawi. We explore the books banned in mainland China at this year’s Hong Kong Book Fair. And, in Oslo, Norway we meet Jostein Gaarder the best-selling author of Sophie’s World.

Peter Fonda talks about his iconic film, Easy Rider and the breakdown of the relationship with its star and director Dennis Hopper. We discover Saraojini Naidu, poet and activist for independence in India, and who much like Fonda and Hopper, was a visionary. Gandhi described her as 'the Nightingale of India'. Cerys Matthews throws new light on the celebrated singer, songwriter and guitarist Joni Mitchell
And, we learn how Mel Torme’s classic Christmas song was composed by a writer desperately trying to keep cool on a hot day.
 
(Photo: Peter Fonda (c) Stuart C Wilson, Joni Mitchell (c) Larry Basaccra), Jostein Gaarder

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