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On today's programme: Love Aaj Kal, Persian Music, Tarzan, Recorded Music. Love Aaj Kal The latest Bollywood romantic comedy has been released to record box office takings in India - and with pre-marital sex and divorce among the themes, we ask if Love Aaj Kal is the future of Bollywood. Persian Music BBC presenter Behzad Bolour chooses his selection of contemporary Persian music. You can hear tracks from Take It Easy Hospital, Rana Farhan and Shahab Tolouie. Tarzan! A new exhibition at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris explores the cultural, and at times controversial phenomenon that was Tarzan. Originally created by Edgar Rice Burroughs almost a century ago, it has come to embody a real modern Western superhero living in an imaginary and idealised Africa. Perfecting Sound Forever - The Story of Recorded Music. Mark Coles talks to the music writer Greg Milner whose new book charts the history of recorded music - from Edison's scratchy phonographs to iPods and mp3's - while questioning what the perfect sound is or should be.
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