09/09/2012

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles. As the US presidential campaign heats up, we review a new anti-Obama documentary - 2016: Obama's America - and ask how Americans on both sides of the political spectrum are reacting to it. The Kennedys; unseen pictures by photographer Mark Shaw, instrumental in the creation of their Camelot myth. And we catch up with Baloji, the Congolese musician who is currently touring the UK on board the Africa Express, and about to appear at The Proms. We hear the story behind Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper, now considered to be one of the top five most important pieces of art in the world. Lawrence Scott The Trinidadian writer Lawrence Scott talks about his new novel Light Falling on Bamboo. Sett in 1848 it's a fictional account of the life and loves of the island's most famous painter Michel Jean Cazabon Somali Party Southall Two cultures meet up in London, and musicians from two continents create an exciting blend; We hear from award winning percussionist Kuljit Bhamra and Abdulkarim Raas Folktales in India to commemorate 200 years of the Grimm's brothers collection of fairy stories, we find out what tales are told by parents to children in contemporary India Everybody's Right by Paolo Sorrentino A review of the debut novel by award winning Italian film director Paolo Sorrentino which tells the story of a wannabe Frank Sinatra enjoying an extravagant lifestyle in Naples and Capri in the 1980's. Lawless We talk to Australian director John Hillcoat about his gangster movie set in Prohibition-era Virginia, starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy.