26/09/2009

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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day: Turner and the Masters J.M.V Turner is widely considered to have been one of Britain's finest painters, and a new exhibition of his work displays his paintings alongside that of the old masters and his contemporaries that inspired him. Mark is joined by art-critic Tim Marlow for a walk around the exhibition at London's Tate Britain. Harry Potter Translators Conference Two years after the publication of the last Harry Potter book, the translators gather in Paris to discuss what was lost in translation… The Strand finds out what their greatest challenges were. Rafael Bonachela Spanish choreographer and Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela talks to Bidisha about his new work The Land of Yes and The Land of No, and what attracted him to working in the world of pop with Kylie Minogue. John Coetzee "Summertime" The Nobel Prize winning author's latest book is a biography of a great South African novelist called John Coetzee. Or is it? Fellow South African writer Christopher Hope helps to unpick the mystery behind Summertime. 'Creation' This is a new biographical film of the English naturalist Charles Darwin who finds himself torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own theory that creation may be explained without God. La Fura Dels Baus Harriett joins Valentina Carrasco from the world renowned Catalan 'total theatre' company La Fura Dels Baus - in a tour of Claudia, a giant fibre glass naked women on stage at the Coliseum in London in this new production of Gyorgy Ligeti's 'anti anti-opera' Le Grand Macabre. THOMAS KENEALLY The award wining author of "Schindler's Ark" returns to a historical theme with his latest novel; "The People's Train". It tells the story of Russian migrants to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century and follows their involvement in the boiling cauldron of international politics back at home and Down Under.