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The Arts Hour: Ai Weiwei, Maia von Lekow, Salman Rushdie

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Ai Weiwei,  Maia von Lekow, Salman Rushdie

26/09/2015 GMT

Ai Weiwei, Maia von Lekow, Salman Rushdie

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Ai Weiwei, Maia von Lekow, Salman Rushdie

Nikki Bedi presents a selection of BBC arts broadcasting.  This week Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei tells us why he's not afraid to return to China, Cameroonian footballer Aloys Kwaakum describes how he has turned his migrant experience into a play, inspirational Senegalese singer Baaba Maal explains why musicians must be activists and performer Adrienne Truscott tells us why she performs naked below the waist. Salman Rushdie defends writing a fantasy novel about the magical jinn of the Arabian Nights in the age of ISIS, crime writer A Yi shares his despair about the state of literature in China, Linda Kennedy reports on the Sundance Film Festival in Hong Kong and Kenyan singer Maia von Lekow discusses the thriving Kenyan music scene.

(Photo shows Ai Weiwei (c) Ben Pruchnie/Getty, Maia von Lekow (c) Maia von Lekow, Salman Rushdie (c) Larry Busacca/Getty)

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