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Culture and Memory

02/04/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Cultural Frontline, Culture and Memory

How film, music, TV and books can provoke and sustain memory

With Tina Daheley.

The first South American film to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar was Argentina's The Official Story in 1986. Irene Caselli explains why thirty years after its release, it still has relevance to today's politics.

As Venice is declared the most at risk heritage site in Europe due to floods and heavy tourist numbers, Agnes Poirier highlights a more subtle threat to the city's cultural identity.

The TV dramatisation of OJ Simpson's 1994 trial is about to finish in America. Sports broadcaster Michael Carlson looks back on how the televised court proceedings changed American culture.

Chhavi Sachdev visits India's only jazz club and discovers a pocket of old time America in contemporary New Delhi.

(Photo: film director Luiz Puenso Credit: JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images)

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