Sunday Feature

The Moving Power of Art

Sunday 2 March 2008 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

As the BBC and the British Council shift their focus to the Middle East, novelist Hisham Matar asks how countries use culture as a political tool and where he fits in as a young Arabic writer living in the West.

He visits the new Korean Art Centre in London and the Islamic Gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum. He also talks to the man who coined the term 'soft power', Prof Joseph Nye, to artist Tracey Emin and to director of the Britsh Museum Neil MacGregor.

Duration:

45 minutes

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

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• 30 Mar 08 Homer's Landscapes
• 23 Mar 08 Rites of Spring
• 16 Mar 08 Raymond Williams
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• 2 Mar 08 Moving Power of Art
• 24 Feb 08 Retreat to Bug River
• 17 Feb 08 Peru
• 10 Feb 08 Edgardo Cozarinsky

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