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The cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe grew up in a township in the south of Johannesburg and creates music that draws on classical, African and contemporary music. He talks to Samira about As You Are, the music he鈥檚 composed for Opera North鈥檚 sound-walks in Leeds and about the celebration of music from Africa which he鈥檚 leading in collaboration with the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra at this year's London Jazz Festival.

At the age of 86, film legend Sophia Loren stars in her first film in almost a decade, The Life Ahead. Directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, she plays a former sex worker who looks after a Senegalese migrant boy. Edoardo talks to Samira about directing his mother sixty years after she won a Best Actress Oscar for Two Women.

Billie is a new online documentary about the jazz singer Billie Holiday which uses material collected by the journalist Linda Kipnack Kuehl: archive, colourisation techniques and previously unheard recordings of interviews with people who knew her. Tega Okiti reviews.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Hilary Dunn