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Guillermo del Toro, Laurie Anderson, Marcus Miller

"The mansion is sort of a rocking carcass and they live in there" - Guillermo del Toro.

The award winning Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro on changing the rules of Gothic romance. Richard Mosse talks about The Enclave, his film looking at the war in the Democratic Republic Of Congo and explains why he used colour infrared film. We learn about Ballet 40/90 starring dancers up to the age of ninety which is playing to packed houses in Buenos Aires and as Olympics fever beckons we hear how Brazilian novelists are striking out for a global readership.

Musician Marcus Miller describes the inspiration for his new album Afrodeezia and his shock on visiting Senegal’s House of Slaves. Performance artist Laurie Anderson tells us about her new film Heart of a Dog and how her dog played the piano. Shah Rukh Khan calls for female equality in Bollywood and we find out what happened when the beat poet Allen Ginsberg visited India.

(Photo: Guillermo de Toro (c) Robin Marchant/Getty, Laurie Anderson (c) Andrew Toth/Getty, Marcus Miller (c) Keith Tsuji/Getty)

50 minutes

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Tue 27 Oct 201502:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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Music and featured items

  • Guillermo del Toro

    The director talks about his latest film, Crimson Peak

    Duration: 08:21

  • Richard Mosse

    An infrared journey through eastern Congo's humanitarian disaster

    Duration: 04:58

  • Postcard from Brazil

    Tatiana Salem Levy sends a literary postcard from Brazil.

    Duration: 03:41

  • Ballet 40/90

    Irene Casselli reports on a group of dancers who are between the ages of 40 and 90

    Duration: 05:58

  • Marcus Miller

    Musician Marcus Miller talks about the inspiration for his album Afrodeezia.

    Duration: 09:58

  • Laurie Anderson

    Laurie Anderson on Guantanamo and her unlikely hit O Superman

    Duration: 07:45

  • Shah Rukh Khan

    Shah Rukh Khan collects honorary degree

    Duration: 02:13

  • Ginsberg In India

    Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s

    Duration: 03:04

  • Javier Navarrete

    Lullaby from Pan's Labyrinth

  • Marcus Miller

    Goree

  • Ananda Shankar

    Love and Passion

  • Javier Navarrete

    The Fairy and the Labyrinth from Pan's Labyrinth

  • Robert Kombo

    Communion

  • Serú Girán

    Popotitos

  • Joaquín Sabina

    Una Chica Almodovar

  • Ananda Shankar

    Streets of Calcutta

  • Laurie Anderson

    Mister Heartbreak

  • Laurie Anderson

    O Superman

  • Shah Rukh khan

    Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam

  • Miles Davis

    Tutu

  • Lou Reed

    Turning Time Around

Broadcasts

  • Sat 24 Oct 201511:06GMT
    BBC World Service except West and Central Africa
  • Mon 26 Oct 201509:06GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Mon 26 Oct 201513:06GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia
  • Mon 26 Oct 201523:06GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Tue 27 Oct 201502:06GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia

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