26/11/2011

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. Tomas Eloy Martinez Argentine writer Tomas Eloy Martinez spent much of his life in exile. His final novel, Purgatory, which has just been published posthumously in English is both a satirical novel about Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s and a love story. Academic Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells The Strand why he admires Martinez' work. Clelia Iruzun A work by long-neglected Brazilian Composer Henrique Oswald is receiving its London premiere, why did it fall from favour for nearly 140 years? Sir Terence Conran An exhibition of the life's work of the man whose design vision has - for more than six decades - affected the domestic environment around us. Christchurch after the earthquake In his film When A City Falls, Gerald Smythe documents the attempts of Christchurch inhabitants to rebuild their lives, their city and its artistic culture. Daniel Buren in London A space, any space, plus stripes - one way to describe the work of one of France's most famous living artists. Feel the love as he talks fibre optics, colour-stained air and kissing saints. An African election We talk to Jarreth Merz, the director of a documentary about the 2008 election in Ghana. He tells us how he got access to the presidential candidates and why he had to make the film. Zakir Hussain Acknowledged master of the tabla drums explains how the rhythms are in his blood and how to keep it fresh after four decades.