05/08/2009
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On today's programme: Love Aaj Kal, Persian Music, Tarzan, Recorded Music.
Love Aaj Kal
The latest Bollywood romantic comedy has been released to record box office takings in India - and with pre-marital sex and divorce among the themes, we ask if Love Aaj Kal is the future of Bollywood.
Persian Music
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ presenter Behzad Bolour chooses his selection of contemporary Persian music. You can hear tracks from Take It Easy Hospital, Rana Farhan and Shahab Tolouie.
Tarzan!
A new exhibition at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris explores the cultural, and at times controversial phenomenon that was Tarzan. Originally created by Edgar Rice Burroughs almost a century ago, it has come to embody a real modern Western superhero living in an imaginary and idealised Africa.
Perfecting Sound Forever - The Story of Recorded Music.
Mark Coles talks to the music writer Greg Milner whose new book charts the history of recorded music - from Edison's scratchy phonographs to iPods and mp3's - while questioning what the perfect sound is or should be.
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