The BBC will be in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on Saturday 7th September, to record The Arts Hour on Tour.
Since November 2016, BBC World Service radio’s The Arts Hour On Tour has visited more than 50 globally significant cities to take the cultural temperature and showcase the arts scene in each location.
On 7th September, Nikki Bedi will be recording an edition in Atlanta, in front of a live audience at WABE. She’ll be joined by artists who call the city home, including Tayari Jones, whose novel, ‘An American Marriage’, made the New York Times bestseller list and won The Women’s Prize for Fiction as well as a commendation from Barack Obama and selection for Oprah’s Book Club.
Also, the Emmy Award-winning Horne Brothers will be onstage, whose documentary, ‘The South Got Something To Say’, looks at the success of the hip hop scene in the city. And Emmy-nominated author, poet, and playwright Jon Goode, host of The Moth Atlanta, will be discussing how Atlanta’s arts scene reflects the state of the nation.
With music from rapper Kodie Shane and a tour around the most cutting-edge locations in Atlanta, The Arts Hour On Tour will shine a spotlight on the vibrant, influential world of the arts in Georgia’s state capital.
This programme will be broadcast on the BBC World Service on 21st September 2024, to millions of listeners worldwide.
