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Venice: City Of Dreams

How Venice itself becomes a temporary art work during the La Biennale arts festival

Venice is hosting the 50th La Biennale arts festival, and this week's 'culture vulture' describes how the city itself becomes a temporary work of art.

Also on the programme: Art's 'enfant terrible' Damien Hirst takes presenter Mark Coles on a trip to Slovenia to look round his latest exhibition. Nigeria's Chinua Achebe talks about colonialism and the need to address the balance in Africa's favour.

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52 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project