The Strand - Friday 9th October 2009.

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On today's programme: Ajami, Burning Man, Charlotte Grimshaw, Franço Makiadi. Ajami The debut film by two Irsaeli directors - one Arab and one Jewish - about the the tense relations between different communities in Jaffa, has won the top prize for best picture at the Ophir Award ceremony in Israel. Now it will be Israel's official nomination in the Best Foreign Film category at next year's Oscars. We review Ajami with the journalist and novelist Avirama Golan. The Burning Man Festival Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. Hannah Godfrey reports from this year's festival Charlotte Grimshaw Acclaimed Auckland writer Charlotte Grimshaw's last collection of interlinked short stories, Opportunity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand's premier award for fiction, the 2008 Montana Medal for Fiction. Harriett Gilbert talks to her about her latest collection, Singularity, about her inspiration for her stories, and why there seems to be an ever present element of danger in her work. Franço Makiadi We mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Franço Makiadi one of Africa's most popular musicians. Having travelled to Kinshasa to speak to modern musicians the BBC's Noel Mwakuga tells us about the legacy of the man dubbed the "Sorcerer of the Guitar".