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The Cultural Frontline: Ilaria Bernardini: My country under lockdown

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Ilaria Bernardini: My Country Under Lockdown

21/03/2020 GMT

Ilaria Bernardini: My country under lockdown

BBC World Service - The Cultural Frontline, Ilaria Bernardini: My country under lockdown

Ilaria Bernardini on how Italy is uniting during an uncertain time.

As countries around the world face up to the challenge of the coronavirus we hear how life and culture are changing in Milan, Italy.  The Italian author and screenwriter Ilaria Bernardini, reflects on how musicians, poets, writers and even chefs, are uniting to bring hope during an uncertain time. 

For the Lebanese poet, Zeina Hashem Beck poetry is how she channels her creative energy, her emotions and her questions. She talks to Tina about how a sense of place and particularly the cities of Tripoli and Beirut inform her poetry.

The internationally renowned designer Christian Louboutin talks about how his childhood love for the Parisian institution, the Museum of African and Oceanic Arts, inspired a life in fashion.

Corruption, crime and the seedy underbelly of Warsaw.  Features you wouldn’t expect to find included in a ‘love letter’ to your home city.  But that’s how novelist Jakub Zulcyzck describes his book, Blinded by the Light which is being made into a TV series for HBO.  Jakub Zulcyzck tells The Cultural Frontline why Warsaw is such a special city despite its darker side.

Presented by Tina Daheley

Image: A family making music on an Italian balcony
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