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Matthew Sweet examines the newly opened Islamic art wing at the Paris Louvre with Karl Sharro. There's a review, also from Paris of the global hit comedy about disability, race and class; Untouchable. Matthew talks to Tarun J Tejpal, a novelist and journalist who founded Tehelka a leading weekly political magazine in India. And Pamela Cox and Emma Griffin, a Radio3 New Generation Thinker, take Night Waves downstairs to discuss the history of servants.

Philip Dodd talks to Mark Rylance, the former artistic director of the Globe. He has been called the greatest stage performer in the world and won awards on both sides of the Atlantic for his performance as Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron in Jerusalem. But he made his name with Shakespeare, and in this extended conversation Philip Dodd examines Rylance’s passion for engaging with "original practice" versions of the Bard to challenging audience relationship with the action on stage, through to playing Shakespeare's most notorious villain.

As a new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski is released, the author Artur Domoslawski and Channel 4 International editor Lindsey Hilsum join Anne McElvoy to discuss the greatness and failings of the iconic Polish writer. New Generation Thinker Jonathan Healey discusses the history of the concept of the ‘undeserving poor’. Susannah Clapp reviews Mademoiselle Julie at the Barbican, starring Juliette Binoche. And Artistic Director Tom Morris shows Anne around the magnificently restored Bristol Old Vic Theatre.