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The Arts Hour: Lang Lang, Eimear McBride, A R Rahman

Lang Lang, Eimear McBride, A.R. Rahman

07/09/2014

Lang Lang, Eimear McBride, A R Rahman

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Lang Lang, Eimear McBride, A R Rahman

"For me paintings are the best and most direct inspiration" - Lang Lang

This week on The Arts Hour superstar pianist Lang Lang on how to play the piano, Aboriginal film director Ivan Sen discusses his new film Mystic River and there's an interview with the theatrical team behind a play using puppets to face the harsh truths of Apartheid South Africa. 
We celebrate the music of film composer A R Rahman,  Irish writer Eimear McBride on her country’s relationship with the English language and local made music videos are coming under fire in Kenya for their increasingly raunchy material. We find out more.   Norwegian literary sensation, Karl Ove Knausgaard, reveals why he’s quitting memoir writing and Oscar winning director, Alex Gibney, on his documentary about Nigeria’s biggest music superstar, Fela Kuti.

(Photo: Lang Lang (c) Robin Marchant/Getty, Eimear McBridge (c) Stuart C Wilson/Getty, A R Rahman (c) Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

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