Joseph O'Neill, Leonard Cohen

Indian classical musician Niladri Kumar was a prodigy, giving his first public sitar performance at the age of six - he performs in session. Joseph O’Neill is on President Obama’s book list and his new novel The Dog, explores slave-like labour conditions and high-finance in Dubai.
And, South African poet and rapper Tumi Molekane tell us how his new track, Signs, was inspired by watching a cockroach.

On the eve of a big concert in New York we talk to Hailu Mergia, a US cab driver who was a legendary 1970s musician and keyboardist from Ethiopia. Pawel Pawlikowski discusses his new film Ida, a black and white meditation about postwar Polish identity and religion. Film critic Philip Bergson discusses the domestic success of Polish movies, and describes an unexpectedly flourishing Ukrainian film scene. Leonard Cohen, the gravel-voiced Canadian prince of pop music, discusses his new CD and the topic of how best to live with defeat.

(Photo: Joseph O'Neill, Leonard Cohen (c) Fabrice Coffrini)