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Special programme: Rwanda's cultural renaissance (2/3)

In the second part of arts24's Rwanda series, Eve Jackson meets a fashion designer taking the country's fashion scene to the next level. Once a model, now designer, Moses Turahirwa re-imagines traditional Rwandan forms and cultural motifs into contemporary pieces. His clients include the Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba, the Nigerian…

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Special programme: Rwanda's cultural renaissance (1/3)

In this special programme from Kigali, Eve Jackson meets the artists rewriting Rwanda's future. Arts24 shows you just how much "the country of a thousand hills", with its population of 14 million, has transformed in the past 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsis.

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Music show: Anoushka Shankar, the superstar sitarist

In this edition of arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets nine-time Grammy-nominated musician Anoushka Shankar. She's a masterful sitarist and film composer as well as an impassioned activist, and has worked with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Patti Smith and even the Dalai Lama. Her love of composing beautiful blends of…

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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson gets to the point with arts24

It's not every day you get given a fencing lesson by a rock legend whose career has spanned over four decades and who has sold hundreds of millions of albums. FRANCE 24's Marjorie Hache had the pleasure of crossing swords with heavy metal star Bruce Dickinson – the lead singer…

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Music show: UK's Tom McRae and King Hannah on their new albums

This week on arts24 we welcome Tom McRae, an English Francophile who gained musical recognition in the early 2000s thanks to delicate songs like "You Cut Her Hair" or "End of the World News". He's just released his new album "Étrange Hiver", in which he sings many tracks in French…

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From murder to atonement: Author Colum McCann writes of a mother's survival

In this edition of arts24 we discover an extraordinary book unlike any you've probably ever read. "American Mother" is a thriller, a memoir, a mystery: the story of how Diane Foley found answers and atonement after her son James was brutally murdered by the Islamic State (IS) group. He was…

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Violinist Alena Baeva: 'We need to escape to our imaginary worlds'

Violinist Alena Baeva is Russian, Luxembourgish Polish and Ukrainian. With her Ukrainian husband, the pianist Vadym Kholodenko, she has just released a new album entitled "Fantasy", which revisits dream-tinted music by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen. The duo are currently touring the record and the award-winning…

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French musical maestro Thomas Roussel on working with superstar Pharrell Williams

On the first arts24 music show of the year, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with French composer, conductor and producer Thomas Roussel. He weaves between classical and electronic genres, and has performed in spectacular locations such as China's Forbidden City, as well as conducting an orchestra on the River Seine. 2023…

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Music show: Martha Da'ro on her debut album and coining the term 'Diaspop'

This week on arts24's music show we welcome Martha Da'ro, a Belgian artist with Angolan heritage who is not only a musician but also an actor with roles in films like "Black", "A Girl from Mogadishu" and more recently hit French TV series "Lupin". She's just released her first studio…

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Music show: Ala.ni puts her own 'dark Disney' twist on the Christmas music genre

Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined in the studio by British singer-songwriter Ala.ni for a very festive edition of arts24. Ala.ni has just released the second instalment of her two-part Christmas EP "Christmas Vol.2", a mix of original tracks and covers such as Joni Mitchell’s "River". Her "dark Disney" vocals are…

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Filmmaker Babak Jalali on bringing romance and comedy into the refugee film genre

In this edition of arts24, we focus on one of the year's most buzzed-about movies on the festival circuit. A different spin on a refugee story, warm and offbeat, "Fremont" tells the story of a young Afghan woman building a new life in California. British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali speaks to…

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Music show: Edouard Bielle sings about addictive love on debut EP 'Loverdose'

In this edition of arts24's weekly music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined by French singer-songwriter Edouard Bielle. His look and sound takes us back to the 1970s, inspired by Christophe and Etienne Daho. He's just dropped his debut EP "Loverdose", a record that delves into the addictive nature of…

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The French 'Mamma Mia!' musical on stage in Paris

In this edition of arts24, we discover the French version of the global smash hit musical seen by more than 65 million people and based on Abba's catchy tunes, which is on stage in Paris. Also on the programme, we visit the new queer, unapologetic and inclusive Paris exhibition of…

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French indie pop “Blowsom” on upcoming album, Madonna in Paris and Dolly Parton goes rock

This week on Arts24, Marjorie Hache speaks to up and coming French pop artist Blowsom who has independently released two EPs and garnered millions of streams. We also catch up with American rock band Rival Sons who have released two albums this year and take a look at Queen Of…

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Artist Antony Gormley: 'This exhibition is an audit on what it means to be alive today'

In this edition of Arts24, Eve Jackson speaks to one of the most popular and accoladed artists in the UK and beyond. Antony Gormley's sculptures are simple and accessible and scattered around the world, from cities to seashores. His 20-metre-high "Angel of the North" has for two decades gazed down…

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Yilian Canizares & Antonio Lizana on exploring spirituality whilst pushing jazz boundaries

This week on Arts24's music show, we have the pleasure of welcoming Yilian Canizares, a classically trained Cuban-Swiss artist who has been embracing her Afro-Cuban roots and has just released her new album "Habana-Bahia". We also meet Spanish artist Antonio Lizana, who has given flamenco a jazz twist and is…

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Writer-director Rebecca Miller on her surreal romcom 'She Came to Me'

She's written and directed six feature films, including "Maggie's Plan" and "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", as well as a documentary about her Nobel Prize-winning playwright father, "Arthur Miller: Writer" in 2017. Artist, author, writer and director Rebecca Miller talks to arts24's Eve Jackson about her new film, the…

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Musician Benjamin Clementine: ‘Performing in prestigious venues and on the Paris metro is the same'

From busking in the Paris metro to winning the prestigious Mercury prize and becoming the face of French brand Givenchy, British composer and singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine has had quite a decade. He stopped by the arts24 studio during his European tour to talk to Eve Jackson about his third album…

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Film show: A couple's story under South Africa's racial classification system

In arts24's weekly film show, critic Lisa Nesselson and Eve Jackson are joined by award-winning French documentary maker Yolande Zauberman to talk about her 1987 film "Classified People". It showed the realities of living under apartheid in South Africa through the eyes of a couple considered inter-racial under the country's…

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Encore! becomes arts24 with rising music stars on the new set

What’s in a name? For the first episode of arts24, music critic Marjorie Hache and presenter Eve Jackson are talking titles, toxic relationships, performing in one of France’s largest prisons and karaoke at holiday camps with Irish singer-songwriter CMAT and French group Howlin’ Jaws.

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