Toni Stuart, Rabindranath Tagore, Glastonbury Festival
“Bones are never just bones, they are someone’s story” - Toni Stuart
Lizo Mzimba reports on the highs and lows of the Glastonbury Festival, film star Sharmila Tagore celebrates the work of her great uncle, India's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and we find out about the Nigerian TV puppet show that's gone viral. Shabnam Mahmood brings news from the London Indian Film Festival, including a new film about the slave trade, Sold, starring Gillian Anderson and we discover the 70 year old secret of the Kalamazoo Gals and the Gibson Guitars they made in the Second World War. There's a literary tour of the city that inspired Wonderland, Narnia and Middle Earth - Oxford, and we meet a firebrand South African performance poet and find out what pineapples tell us about art history.
(Photo shows: Toni Stuart, Rabindranath Tagore (c) Hulton Archive/Getty, Dolly Parton (c) Leon Neal/Getty)
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Commonwealth Poetry Postcards
A poet from every competing nation and territory has been invited to send in a poem
Duration: 06:51
Glastonbury Festival
Lizo Mzimba talks about his highlights from this year's festival
Duration: 04:44
Kalamazoo Gals
The guitar craftswomen who were erased from history
Duration: 05:51
Harvest
We find out what pineapples tell us about art history in a new exhibition
Duration: 05:32
Rabindranath Tagore
A celebration of the poetry of the Nobel laureate by Sharmila Tagore and Sangeeta Datta
Duration: 09:34
Nigerian TV Satire
Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on a popular satirical TV show in Nigeria
Duration: 04:44
London Indian Film Festival
Shabnam Mahmood tells us what's happening in Indian film beyond Bollywood
Duration: 03:56
Oxford Literary Tour
We take a tour of places that inspired some classic children's literature
Duration: 08:14
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Dave Brubeck
Take Five
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Metallica
Sad But True
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Dolly Parton
Jolene
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Dolly Parton
Lay Your Hands on Me
Supporting Artist: Richie Sambora.![]()
Scott Joplin
Pineapple Rag
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Dam Mast Qalandar Mast Mast
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Kaushiki Chakrabarty
Raag Abho
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Mustt Mustt
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Sammy Fain
Alice in Wonderland
Composer: Bob Hilliard. Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.![]()
Ralph Vaughan Williams
An Oxford Elegy
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Anne Stephens
You're a Wondrous Cheshire Cat
Harvest at The Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia
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This new exhibition at GOMA looks at the way that images of food and art history are intertwined
Image: Alexander Coosemans, Flanders 1627-89 'Still Life' (GOMA)
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