What is America?

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles. My America My America is a project devised by Kwame Kwei-Armah - artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore, USA. Short monologues by 50 playwrights about America which have been filmed by Hal Hartley. Hip Hop in the Middle east Saudi DJ Big Hass selects a couple of tracks that he feels reflect the situatuion musically and politically in the region. Chico Buarque As his latest novel, Spilt Milk, appears in English we hear about a founder of Bossa Nova, song-writer and award-winning novelist who is also a political hero in his home country, Brazil. Photo shows Kwame Kwei-Amagh. © BBC.