Soka Afrika

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Producers Sam Potter and Simon Laub talk about their documentary film which investigates the trafficking of talented young African football players to Europe and the hardship that faces those who fail to get a contract with a club. Pow! is the first novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan to come out in English since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. His translator, Howard Goldblatt, talks about the novel and Mo Yan's work. Matthew Barley, Britain's most adventurous cellist is marking the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten's birth by playing 100 concerts in extraordinary venues around the UK, from a swimming bath to a barn, from churches to a cave.