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World Service,55 mins

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Anna McNamee Herzog The architect talks designing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion alongside Ai Weiwei. Yoko Ono Louisa Buck joins Anna McNamee to review the artist's latest exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Jonathan Harvey The British composer talks about his latest work Weltethos, which is based on texts from six of the world's largest religions: Confucianism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Yinka Shonibare Yinka Shonibare - the artist who previously displayed a giant ship in a bottle in Trafalgar Square in London - talks about his new public sculpture for The Royal Opera House called Globe Head Ballerina. Hamid Pourazari The Iranian theatre director talks about his latest production, 'Unfinished Dream', which features refugees and local inhabitants of Croydon in South London performing a world of stories in a multi storey car park. Peter Sellars The theatre director talks about his production of Toni Morrison's Desdemona starring Rokia Traore which re-tells the story of Shakespeare's Othello and Desdemona. Rokia Traore The Malian singer talks about her role in the above production of Desdemona.

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