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How important is art in times of genocide? Rama Mani, who’s worked in country after country, and across all continents, has seen that art reappears, phoenix-like, after the worst atrocities and inhumanity. Whenever societies are stifled with injustice, and crushed by physical and cultural violence, remarkably the human spirit of creativity refuses to die.
This week the sonic biography of One Pig, from the studio of Matthew Herbert. He’s one of the most prolific composers in the UK, but not in any conventional sense of the word. Because Matthew Herbert has increasingly made his name as the master of music made from the audible world, using ‘found sound’.
a radio feature produced by Michael Shirrefs Artworks Feature—ABC RN—Sunday 30th October 2011 This week on the Artworks Feature, we're taking you inside the pictorial world of the Bande Dessinée—the Graphic Novel. It's an art-form that Belgians claim as their own—with Brussels as its spiritual home. Now if you grew up with the stories [...] 
a radio feature produced by Michael Shirrefs Artworks Feature—ABC RN—Sunday 30th October 2011 On this week's Artworks Feature, a trip to Denmark, the spiritual home of Children's Theatre. This country of only 5 million people supports almost 150 theatre companies devoted to children. It has the World's largest Children's Theatre Festival. And in this [...] 