Key moments in the continent's history set against music from Youssou N'Dour, Hugh Masekela , Mali's Super
Rail Band and others.

Kirsty Lang presents. Then Weather

During the 1940s and 50s, Sophiatown in Johannesburg was an enclave of creativity amid the insanity of apartheid. Storyville pays tribute to a bygone era. (AD)

A
1993 profile of the South African singer Brenda Fassie , who died in May this year. "The Madonna of the Townships" could count
Nelson Mandela among her fans, but her career was marred by drugs and alcohol.

1/6. John McCririck joins the ruminative angling expedition for a chat about travel.

*** The first Thai film to screen in contest at Cannes,
Wisit Sasanatieng 's directorial debut from 2000 is a dazzling action melodrama. Childhood sweethearts driven apart by class snobbery are reunited by a desperate bandit's actions. In Thai with English subtitles.