BBC World Service in Atlanta to record The Arts Hour On TourThe Arts Hour on Tour will arrive in Atlanta on Saturday 7 SeptemberOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY BBC World Service August 28, 2024 -- The BBC will be in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on Saturday 7 September, to record The Arts Hour on Tour. Since November 2016, BBC World Service radio’s The Arts Hour On Tour has visited more than 50 globally significant cities to take the cultural temperature and showcase the arts scene in each location. On 7 September, Nikki Bedi will be recording an edition in Atlanta, in front of a live audience at WABE. She’ll be joined by artists who call the city home, including Tayari Jones, whose novel, An American Marriage, made the New York Times bestseller list and won The Women’s Prize for Fiction as well as a commendation from Barack Obama and selection for Oprah’s Book Club. Also, the Emmy Award-winning Horne Brothers will be on stage, whose documentary, The South Got Something To Say’, looks at the success of the hip hop scene in the city. And Emmy-nominated author, poet, and playwright Jon Goode, host of The Moth Atlanta, will be discussing how Atlanta’s arts scene reflects the state of the nation. With music from rapper Kodie Shane and a tour around the most cutting-edge locations in Atlanta, The Arts Hour On Tour will shine a spotlight on the vibrant, influential world of the arts in Georgia’s state capital. This programme will be broadcast on the BBC World Service on 21 September 2024, to millions of listeners worldwide. Register to be in the audience here:https:// AboutAbout The Arts Hour on TourThe Arts Hour is the BBC World Service’s flagship arts and culture programme. To date, The Arts Hour on Tour has been live on stage in: Paris, Jerusalem, Jaipur, New Orleans, Berlin, Venice, Reykjavik, Seoul, Edinburgh, St Petersburg, Mexico City, Mumbai, Copenhagen, Addis Ababa, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Montreal, Brussels, Johannesburg, Tunis, Milan, Bogota, London, Warsaw, Accra, Nashville, Tbilisi, Sarajevo, Sao Paulo, Miami, Lisbon, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Jakarta, Tirana, Nairobi, Budapest, Athens, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Istanbul. We also recorded ‘virtual’ shows in Rome, Stockholm and Sydney during Covid 19 Lockdowns. You can listen to all these programmes on the BBC Arts Hour website. About Nikki BediNikki Bedi is an international television and radio broadcaster with a passion for making arts and culture accessible. Her knowledge, curiosity, world-view and comprehensive research, have led to her being described as a ‘cultural courier, de-colonising the world one programme at a time.’ She currently curates, writes and hosts The Arts Hour on the BBC World Service, which several times a year becomes The Arts Hour On Tour, a show which travels to different cities in the world bringing that country’s biggest and brightest artists, actors, authors, musicians, comedians, directors, architects, poets and other top creatives in their fields, together, for a spirited debate before a live audience. In covering the arts across the globe for over two decades, which she describes as not only a privilege, but also the greatest education anyone could have, Nikki has interviewed some of the world’s biggest names and talents, celebrities and industry heavyweights including: Christopher Nolan, Barry Jenkins, Sian Heder, Steve McQueen, Alexander Payne, Ariana de Bose, Aunjanue Ellis, Geena Davis, JA Bayona, Michael Mann, Celine Song, Ruth E Carter, Asif Kapadia, Todd Field, Ruben Östlund, Baz Luhrman, Colson Whitehead, and Riz Ahmed. Nikki Bedi joined the BBC as a presenter in 2003 and has rarely been off their airwaves since, hosting all kinds of TV and radio shows.
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