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World Service,23 Sep 2009,28 mins

23/09/2009

The Strand

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On today's programme: J M Coetzee, Moctezuma Aztec Ruler Exhibition, Rafael Bonachela. J M Coetzee Summertime The Nobel Prize winning author's latest book is a biography of a great South African novelist called J M Coetzee. Or is it? Fellow South African writer Christopher Hope helps to unpick the mystery behind Summertime. Moctezuma Aztec Ruler Exhibition Famously defeated by the Conquistador Cortez and his small band of horsemen, and mispronounced in the West ever since, Moctezuma, is the subject of the last of four exhibitions about great rulers to open at the British Museum in London. Bidisha is guided around by curator Colin McEwan. Rafael Bonachela Spanish choreographer and Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela talks to Bidisha about his new work The Land of Yes and The Land of No, and what attracted him to working in the world of pop with Kylie Minogue.

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