BBC World Service in Kuala Lumpur to record The Arts Hour On TourThe programme will feature live performances and star guest interviews with Malaysian creatives who will join BBC presenter Nikki Bedi on stage, along with a live audienceOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY BBC World Service Published: November 11, 2024 -- The BBC World Service is bringing its flagship arts and culture programme The Arts Hour on Tour to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday 26 November 2024, featuring live performances and interviews with leading creatives from the city and country. The programme will feature live performances and star guest interviews with Malaysian creatives who will join BBC presenter Nikki Bedi on stage, along with a live audience, to discuss the themes of cultural life in Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia right now. Guests include screen star Sharifah Amani, whose latest film La Luna is Singapore’s submission to next year’s Oscars and tells the story of a woman who opens a lingerie shop in a conservative Malaysian village. Film director Ng Ken Kin talks about Pendatang, his crowdfunded film, available to watch on YouTube, which depicts a fictitious dystopian Malaysia, where different races are forbidden to live together. There will be live music from the extraordinarily talented Kuala Lumpur singer-songwriter Takahara Suiko, and from the phenomenal Sabahan band Tuni Sundatang with sensational singer, Dabra Sia, whose collaborations are fusing the folkloric traditions of Borneo with contemporary rock music. Recorded in English for BBC World Service Radio, The Arts Hour on Tour visits cities all over the world to explore their hottest cultural trends by talking to the artists who live and work there, promoting cultural exchange across the world. We are especially excited to visit Malaysia, with its rich mix of cultures, ancient and modern, and we hope to create an amazing opportunity for Malaysian talents and culture to be heard by our worldwide audience. The show will be broadcast on BBC World Service Radio, to millions of listeners worldwide. Everyone is invited to register to attend for free and be part of the audience for the recording: Date: Tuesday 26 November Please register for FREE seat reservations 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: Accra, Addis Ababa, Amsterdam, Athens, Atlanta, Berlin, Bogota, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jaipur, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Montreal, Mumbai, Nairobi, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Paris, Reykjavik, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sarajevo, Seattle, Seoul, St Louis, St Petersburg, Taipei, Tbilisi, Tirana, Tunis, Warsaw, and Venice. We also recorded ‘virtual’ shows in Rome, Stockholm and Sydney during Covid 19 Lockdowns. You can listen to all of these programmes on the BBC Arts Hour on Tour 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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