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11 October 2015

Episode 327

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Robert Bound and Tom Edwards are joined by Tate Modern’s international art curator Flavia Frigeri to discuss ‘The World Goes Pop’. Plus, we hear from Mohamed Fahmy, the formerly imprisoned journalist who has now left Egypt, about the state of press freedom; and solo sailor Alex Thomson joins us to discuss his new multi-million pound boat that will take him from France to Brazil.

11 October 2015

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Chapter 1

Introduction

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Tom Edwards, Robert Bound and Henry Rees-Sheridan assess the week gone by and look forward to the next seven days.

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Flavia Frigeri

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Curator of international art at Tate Modern, Flavia Frigeri, talks Rob and Tom through ‘The World Goes Pop’. The new exhibition seeks to rebalance the accepted US and UK-centric historic narrative of pop art by looking at equally great works that came out of Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Mohamed Fahmy

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Former Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy talks to Steve Bloomfield about his experience of being imprisoned in Egypt.

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Alex Thomson

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British sailor Alex Thomson will spend 25,000 miles sailing alone aboard his new Hugo Boss boat. He tells Robert and Tom about the design of the multi-million-pound vessel.

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