29/07/2012

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriet Gilbert. Thomas Heatherwick Harriett Gilbert talks to the designer of the new London double decker bus and finds out why he thinks that buses are as important as buildings in creating the architecture of a city. Tino Sehgal Simon Pitts meets the British-born German artist Tino Sehgal at the Tate Modern where his newly commissioned live artwork is on display - a piece that consists of 70 people walking, running and singing in the giant Turbine Hall. Herman Koch The Dutch novelist Herman Koch talks to Harriett Gilbert about his book 'The Dinner', and asks whether parents and those without children have quite different senses of morality. Jamaica at 50 And we have a round-up of the cultural events being planned in Jamaica to celebrate the island's 50th anniversary of independence, as well as a look at Jamaican literature, both at the time of independence and now. We speak to reggae legend Jimmy Cliff and also to one of the best-known Jamaican artists working today, the controversial Renee Cox. She uses her own body, both nude and clothed, to celebrate black womanhood and cast a critical eye at racism and sexism. Image: 'A New Bus For London', designed by a collaboration between Heatherwick Studio and Wright Bus. Photo credit: Iwan Baan.