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Former ballet star Li Cunxin on growing up in Mao's China, the art of playing William Shakespeare and how popular culture has responded to the atomic bomb. With Samira Ahmed. Show more
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Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including screenwriter Noah Baumbach on Mistress America, playwright Helen Edmundson on The Heresy of Love and a review of Spanish thriller Marshland. Show more
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Arts news, including Guy Ritchie on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., fantasy writer China Mieville on his new collection of short stories and the actor George Cole remembered. Show more
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The acclaimed ballet and contemporary dancer Sylvie Guillem reflects on her career, which spans almost 35 years, and tells John Wilson about her final programme of work. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including architect Amanda Levete on her Victoria and Albert project, Amy Schumer's new film Trainwreck and Crystal Moselle on directing Wolfpack. Show more
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A review of Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns; Nick Coleman discusses his new novel Pillow Man; composer, conductor and orchestrator Jules Buckley on his plans for Radio 1Xtra's Prom. Show more
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Jake Gyllenhaal on his new boxing film Southpaw, plus Stieg Larsson's former editor Eva Gedin, two Anthony Caro exhibitions in Yorkshire and the Children's Poetry Award winner. Show more
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Naughty Boy discusses the BBC Asian Network Prom, the televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley in Best of Enemies, and Bellowhead at WOMAD. With John Wilson. Show more
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Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on performing Beethoven's piano concertos at the Proms, a Mack & Mabel review and Kurdish poet Choman Hardi. Show more
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Samira Ahmed talks to opera director Barrie Kosky about his Glyndebourne production of Handel's Saul. Plus author Paul Murray talks about the follow-up to his novel Skippy Dies. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including The Legend of Barney Thomson, Annie Nightingale and Pete Tong, Michael Morpurgo's 946 and York galleries charging for entry. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including dancer Sylvie Guillem on her final performances, the 50th anniversary of Help!, the Aurora Orchestra and a review of new documentary Iris. Show more
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Presented by Samira Ahmed. Featuring Joan Armatrading, Reese Witherspoon in Hot Pursuit, Michael Moorcock on new novel The Whispering Swarm, and dealing with artistic controversy. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news with John Wilson, including conductor Semyon Bychkov talking about Shostakovich's 7th Symphony and Steve Reich on how his Clapping Music has become an app. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including Canadian theatre maker Robert Lepage, Scottish Turner-nominated art on tour in a bus and pianist James Rhodes. Show more
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Samira Ahmed talks to pianist Andras Schiff about performing Bach's Goldberg Variations, author Patrick Ness discusses his new novel, and The Bad Education Movie is reviewed. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including a review of hip-hop film Straight Outta Compton, Paula McLain on her new novel Circling the Sun and Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. Show more
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Kirsty Lang speaks to Cerys Matthews and Timberlake Wertenbaker about Our Country's Good and to Zimbabwean comedy duo Zambezi News about their work. Show more
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As he prepares for a concert tour of the UK, British pianist James Rhodes discusses his controversial autobiography Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music. Show more
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Kirsty Lang discusses the Man Booker Prize longlist with chair of judges Michael Wood. Plus cricket documentary Death of a Gentleman, and the aesthetics TV series Game of Thrones. Show more
