Michael Nyman and Iraqi poet Jamal Jumá

The composer Michael Nyman and Iraqi poet Jamal Jumá talk about their controversial anti-war choral work Handshake in the Dark.

Also on the programme: why has comic book hero Captain America been killed off? Chadian film director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun talks about his movie Daratt, the biographer Professor Gerald Martin reports the celebrations in Colombia of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 80th birthday, MIT launches the Just Jerusalem competition and the Grammy-nominated singer James Hunter performs in the studio.

Presented by Mark Coles.