Sunday Feature

Return to Beirut

Sunday 24 June 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Last spring, Hassan Arouni visited Beirut to explore its thriving contemporary art scene. One year on, he returns to Lebanon to ask how the rising tensions of the last 12 months have affected the lives and work of Beirut's artists, and how the city itself has been transformed.

Hassan meets artists who are showing at the Venice Biennale, the first time that Lebanon has been represented at the international art exhibition. However, the creation of the Lebanese National Pavilion has proved controversial: what kind of art and which artists can best represent this increasingly fractured nation?

Duration:

45 minutes

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

• 31 August 2007
• 26 Aug 07 Le Morte Darthur
• 12 Aug 07 The Reconciler
• 5 Aug 07 Sibelian Landscapes
• 22 Jul 07 Courting the East
• 1 Jul 07 Sex, Books and Empire
• 24 Jun 07 Return to Beirut
• 10 Jun 07 HP Lovecraft
• 3 Jun 07 Elgar and Empire
• 20 May 07 The Splintered City

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