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The Arts Hour: Musician Angelique Kidjo

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Angelique Kidjo

02/06/2018 GMT

Musician Angelique Kidjo

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Musician Angelique Kidjo

With composer Pamela Tan Nicholson and singer songwriter Angelique Kidjo

On The Arts Hour this week, Nikki Bedi is joined in the studio by Singaporean composer Pamela Tan Nicholson, who discusses her new project TriOperas, an updated version of three much loved Operas, and film critic and producer Catherine Bray. 

Nikki also hears from “Africa’s greatest living diva” Grammy Award winning Beninese singer-songwriter, actress and activist Angelique Kidjo, who discusses her new album, an interpretation of the Talking Head’s classic Remain in Light.

Irish actress Saoirse Ronan talks about collaborating with British writer Ian McEwan for the second time for her new film On Chesil Beach, American director Spike Lee discusses his latest movie BlacKkKlansmen and investigating race relations in America through the medium of film for the past thirty years.

Indian novelist Manu Joseph on why he decided to write a satire about contemporary India and American musician and composer Ry Cooder remembers working on a soundtrack with film director Wim Wenders.

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