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The Art of Fireworks
How fireworks have appeared and influenced art across the world
Shimmer Chinodya interview
The Zimbabwean novelist talks about writing for children
Art and the marketplace
A discussion about market forces in two contrasting areas: pop music and fine art
Anthony Julius and Hans Hacker
The British academic and the German-born artist discuss transgressive art
Americanization: Part 1
How mass marketing and production made the American dream universal
Elizabeth Alexander and James G Basker
The African-American poet and academic discuss an anthology of poems about slavery
Americanization: Part 2
How American architecture and food has worked its way into global culture
Ghandi鈥檚 The Story of my Experiments with Truth
The Indian writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia talks about Mahatma Ghandi鈥檚 autobiography
Americanization: Part 4
How France embraces and resists American culture
91热爆 World Service Short Story Competition
The judges announce the winning writers from Zambia, Italy and Belgium
Americanization: Part 3
How American popular music helped to spread the USA鈥檚 cultural revolution
Bernardine Evaristo
The British novelist talks about Toni Morrison鈥檚 novel The Bluest Eye
Fred D'Aguiar
An interview with the British-Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist
Linton Kwesi Johnson
An interview with the Jamaican reggae dub poet
Adapting books for the screen
From Adaptation to Gone to the Wind, the relationship between Hollywood and novels
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The announcement of the winners in the Eurasian region
Porgy and Bess: the world tour
The story of the 1950s international tour of George Gershwin鈥檚 opera