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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Bidisha. Burma VJ We speak to Anders Østergaard, the director of an award-winning documentary called Burma VJ. The film is composed of hidden camera recordings of life in modern Burma and caught the monks uprising of 2007 in vivid and shocking reality. Burma VJ Website http://burmavjmovie.com/ Carlos Acosta in Cuba The UK's Royal Ballet has arrived in Havana for its first visit to the island. The BBC's Cuba correspondent Michael Voss, reports on the country's passion for ballet, the huge demand for tickets and excitement surrounding the return of their home-grown star, Carlos Acosta. HODD A ragged host of unreliable narrators and manuscript trails 700 years long lead us to HODD, the brutal, vicious, violent thief who lives in a small scrappy wood in Yorkshire and is author Adam Thorpe's evocation of what the bloodsoaked figure at the centre of the Robin Hood legend might be. HODD is published by Jonathan Cape books. White Denim Texan band White Denim are back with their follow up album to last year's hugely successful Workout Holiday. They perform an exclusive track from the new album Fits. http://www.myspace.com/whitedenimmusic
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