wypr: : The Ticket (2008-10-27)

A fond – if somewhat raucous - farewell from The Ticket this week as, from Monday, October 27 2008, the BBC World Service will be launching a new daily arts programme called The Strand.

On this week's Ticket: We'll be hearing from the director of the new documentary Salute. Matt Norman's film tells the story of his uncle, Peter Norman, who in 1968 was the third athlete on the Olympic victory podium that Tommie Smith and John Carlos used to protest with a Black Power salute.

Keeping with the theme, Emory Douglas, the first and only Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party talks about a new exhibition of his art from that period.

The free-runner Sebastien Foucan has dropped into the Ticket studio (quite literally) to talk about how jumping from roof to roof, hanging from balconies and launching himself across the world's most urban and built-up skylines is less sport and more art.

The author John Le Carré will be talking about his new book A Most Wanted Man.

We've a report from Germany where the premiere of the film "A Woman in Berlin" about the hidden horrors of those months in 1945 after Berlin fell to the Allies and Russian soldiers prowled the bombed-out streets in search of women to rape.

And, just so we know you won't forget us, we're going out with a bang! The New Zealand punk trio Die! Die! Die! will be in the Ticket studio effectively playing our requiem.

The Ticket Extra:

Black Panther: Emory Douglas and the Art of Revolution, opens at Manchester's Urbis Gallery 30 October 2008-March 2009.

Black Panther: the Revolution Art of Emory Douglas ISBN 978-0-8478-2944-6

The book Freerunning: Find Your Way by Sebastien Foucan ISBN 9781843 173304

The book A Most Wanted Man by John LeCarré ISBN 978 0340977064

Die! Die! Die!'s new album Promises Promises is out on the Tardus (New Zealand), Etch and Sketch (Australia) and SAF Records (USA/Canada) labels.

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