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Arts In Action

A weekly round-up of arts from around the world

World Service,146 episodes

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Culture Minister Slammed in Iran
'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign
10 Nov 2000,25 mins
Kidnapper Releases Indian Film Star
Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days
17 Nov 2000,25 mins
Rwanda Rediscovers Music
South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali
24 Nov 2000,25 mins
Klimt Works Returned
An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners
01 Dec 2000,26 mins
A Russian Puzzle
'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize
08 Dec 2000,25 mins
Iran Loses Culture Tsar
Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani
15 Dec 2000,25 mins
Nigerian State Bans Film
Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law
21 Dec 2000,25 mins
Why 2000 Belonged to the Net
A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts
31 Dec 2000,26 mins
The Second Harlem Renaissance
A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion
06 Jan 2001,26 mins
Uproar in Bombay
Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry
12 Jan 2001,25 mins
The Cairo Book Fair Hits Trouble
The Muslim Brotherhood attacks the 'pornographic' content of state-published books
23 Jan 2001,25 mins
The Verdi Centenary
The composer is 'part of the country's very identity' says Italy's culture minister
26 Jan 2001,25 mins
Drawing Dissent
The importance of satirical cartoons in southern Africa
02 Feb 2001,25 mins
'Ulysses' Film Opens At Last
Ireland overturns ban after 34 years
13 Feb 2001,25 mins
The End of Napster
A judge in California closes down the music download site
16 Feb 2001,26 mins
Adieu Charles Trenet
France mourns its 'singing fool'
22 Feb 2001,26 mins
The Taliban Attacks the Arts
Statues in Afghanistan are deemed 'un-Islamic'
01 Mar 2001,26 mins
Hollywood Writers' Strike Looms
Studios are struggling to avoid industrial action from 1 May
09 Mar 2001,26 mins
Tierney Gearon in Hot Water
The US photographer falls foul of Britain's Vice Squad
19 Mar 2001,27 mins
Philippines Film Censor Condemns Government
Nicanor Tiongson has resigned in protest at 'religious bigotry'
23 Mar 2001,25 mins
Mexico's Man of Mystery
How Subcomandante Marcos became an icon of resistance
30 Mar 2001,26 mins
Turkmenistan Clamps Down on the Arts
President Saparmurat Niyazov orders the opera house to be closed
09 Apr 2001,25 mins
Iranian Art Debuts in Europe
London's Barbican Gallery welcomes the country's contemporary art
12 Apr 2001,25 mins
Is Nadine Gordimer a Racist?
Teachers attack the South African Nobel Laureate's novel 'July's People'
20 Apr 2001,26 mins
South Korea's Japan Problem
A pop video is re-igniting ill feeling between the two countries
01 May 2001,26 mins
'Cultural Revolution' in Venezuela
President Hugo Chávez's arts policy comes under fire
08 May 2001,26 mins
Chinese Ballet Takes a Step Too Far
Zhang Yimou adapts his film 'Raise The Red Lantern'
14 May 2001,26 mins
The Media Baron Prime Minister
Italy re-elects self-made millionaire Silvio Berlusconi
18 May 2001,26 mins
'On The Road' on the Block
Jack Kerouac's original manuscript goes up for auction in New York
25 May 2001,26 mins
Wagner Concert Pulled in Israel
Festival organisers bow to political pressure over a production of 'Die Walküre'
01 Jun 2001,26 mins