Hear my country

Listeners choose the songs that conjure up the feel, sound and spirit of their country

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The Perfect American

Philip Glass's latest opera is based on Walt Disney, but it’s not a pretty story.

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Voices united for Mali

Mali's most famous musicians have recorded a song calling for peace in their country.

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Jaipur Literary Festival

The Dalai Lama, Manu Joseph and Sebastian Faulkes at largest literary festival in India

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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty: controversial movie tells the story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden

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Robert Zemeckis

Director Robert Zemeckis discusses his new film Flight starring Denzel Washington

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Feast

The Yoruba: their beliefs and legacy is the focus of a new theatre production in London

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Lena Dunham

Alec Baldwin of WNYC talks to the writer and star of the huge successful TV series Girls.

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Nihad Sirees

The Syrian writer Nihad Sirees talks about his new novel The Silence and the Roar

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Barbara Hannigan

Operatic soprano Barbara Hannigan is always pushing at the boundaries

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Irrawaddy Literary Festival

We're in Burma for the country's first-ever literary festival.

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Peter Zumthor

Celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor talks about designing buildings with integrity

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Woody Guthrie

A previously unknown novel by US folk singer Woody Guthrie has just been published.

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Ice Age Art

Ice Age Art:Arrival of the Modern Mind is a new exhibition at the British Museum in London

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A Liar's Autobiography

The Monty Python team are reunited with their deceased colleague in this animated film

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A different look at love with American psychologist Barbara L Fredrickson.

A different look at love with American psychologist Barbara L Fredrickson.

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World Premiere of Speranza (Hope) by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

A new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage - Speranza (Hope) - has its World Premiere in London.

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Stone Dreams

Akram Aylisli's novella has sparked a hate campaign in his native Azerbaijan.

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Salif Keita

Salif Keita, one of Africa's biggest musical stars talks about his new album Talé

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Intizar Husain - Basti

One of the finest works written in Urdu and nominated for a Man Booker International prize

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Detroit: Music City

Detroit is a city in spiralling decline. Can music and the arts help to revive it?

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Romanian Cinema

The new generation of Romanian film makers.

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International Playwriting Competiton - Meet the winners

We hear from the winners of the 2012 International Playwriting Competition.

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Ibrahim Maalouf

Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf brings Arabic scales to 1950s style jazz.

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Indian film director Anurag Kashyap

Indian film director Anurag Kashyap and the Perunika Trio.

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Haneke produces Mozart Opera

Award winning producer of Amour, Michael Haneke directs Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte in Madrid.

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YouTube Charts

What does the incorporation of YouTube plays to calculate chart positions mean for music?

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Comedy at the ballot box

Henning Wehn examines the relationship between stand-up comedy and politics.

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Mexican Car Poolers

The photographer Alejandro Cartagena spent over a year photographing Mexican car poolers

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Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

The two American songwriters talk to us about their current release Child Ballads.

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