25/02/2012

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Anna McNamee Wild Swans We discuss a new stage adaption of Jung Chang's international bestseller Wild Swans. The book is an epic story of three women from her own family in twentieth century China so how does this work in the theatre? Agnes Desarthes The Foundling is the latest book by the award-winning French author Agnes Desarthes and is the story of Jerome who after his teenage daughter loses her boyfriend in a horrific motorcycle crash, finds himself unable to cope with her or his own legacy of grief. Death of Klinghoffer John Adams' controversial opera about the 1985 hijacking of a cruise ship and murder of a Jewish passenger by Palestinian terrorists is staged in London Speech Debelle Award winning British female rapper's eagerly awaited second album; more personal and reflective than before Heman Chong Singaporean artist and writer proposes his city as the ideal setting for science fiction. Dasa Drndic Croatian novelist Dasa Drndic talks about her extraordinary novel Trieste, a harrowing account of the horrors suffered by Jewish Italian people during the Holocaust, told using fragments of newspaper cuttings, court testimonials and survivor accounts. At the centre of the novel is Haya, an old woman looking back to the events of the second world war as she searches for her son, who was taken from her. Photo of Wild Swans by Michael Lutch