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Global Beats

Scotland

Duration: 50 minutes

on BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

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This month, Global Beats comes from the Edinburgh Festival and is packed with Scottish talent. Presenter Vic Galloway will be joined by six of the most exciting, cutting edge up and coming bands who will be performing for a live audience of festival goers. The musicians have wide influences and demonstrate just how varied and international Scotland’s music scene is right now.

Discovery

In Their Element

Carbon - the backbone of life

Duration: 27 minutes

on BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

Available for over a year

Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary Science at the Open University explores the nature of carbon, from its formation in distant stars to its uses and abuses here on earth. Show more

The Cultural Frontline

Picturing Politics: An Artist’s Response to the Kenyan Election

Duration: 27 minutes

on BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

Available for over a year

Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage explores the visual spectacle of an election rally in Kenya. Also, novelist Ruth Behar, poet André Naffis-Sahely and dancer Mamela Nyamza. Show more

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