From busking in the Paris metro to winning the prestigious Mercury prize and becoming the face of French brand Givenchy, British composer and singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine has had quite a decade. He stopped by the arts24 studio during his European tour to talk to Eve Jackson about his third album ‘And I Have Been’. He tells us about writing an album trilogy about his wife, fatherhood and the loss of his own father as well as acting in the Oscar-winning film "Dune" and Steve McQueen’s upcoming "Blitz".

From desire to grief, from synths to the Armenian flute, Clara Ysé's haunting music is a mix of beautiful contradictions. Music, poetry and literature have always been part of her DNA. She's just dropped her much anticipated debut album "Oceano Nox", so much so that her upcoming shows at Paris’s Café de la Danse are sold out! She dropped by FRANCE 24 to talk to Jennifer Ben Brahim about female friendships, love and writing her first novel.

Dheepthika Laurent talks to Kiran Millwood Hargrave, an award-winning British author, about the French release of her novel "The Dance Tree". It's a story of forbidden love and family secrets set against the backdrop of a true historical phenomenon: a dance plague that took over the French city of Strasbourg in 1518. She also talks to us about the importance of nature and the environment in her new children's fantasy trilogy, "In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen".

Arts24 meets with Togolese musical trio Nana Benz, who are pioneers of digital voodoo: a mix of voodoo incantations and electro. They opened this year's La Villette Jazz Festival and have been touring Europe all summer. The band is driven by a strong feminist identity and is committed to protecting the environment.

In arts24's weekly film show, critic Lisa Nesselson and Eve Jackson are joined by award-winning French documentary maker Yolande Zauberman to talk about her 1987 film "Classified People". It showed the realities of living under apartheid in South Africa through the eyes of a couple considered inter-racial under the country's classification laws. The film has been restored and is being re-released in France. We also have reviews of French writer-director Catherine Breillat's Cannes competition film "Last Summer", about an affair between a teenager and his stepmother, and Cannes Jury Prize winner "Fallen Leaves" from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.

TV series critic Dheepthika Laurent tells us about this month's hottest television series, including the last season of "Sex Education", as well as "The Morning Show", "One Piece" and "Class Act", a docu-fiction about a French tycoon that's causing a buzz.

What’s in a name? For the first episode of arts24, music critic Marjorie Hache and presenter Eve Jackson are talking titles, toxic relationships, performing in one of France’s largest prisons and karaoke at holiday camps with Irish singer-songwriter CMAT and French group Howlin’ Jaws.

On the week marking 50 years since the bloody military coup that brought Pinochet to power in Chile, we meet the woman who used her camera to defy the dictatorship. It was dangerous for anyone to capture life in Chile under Pinochet – let alone a woman determined to show society’s underbelly of outcasts and the marginalised. Paz Errazuriz is a multiple award-winning photographer, one of Chile’s most revered photographers, praised for her photographs denouncing the Pinochet years. Her work is being shown at a Paris exhibition called "Unfinished Stories" at Paris's Maison de l’Amérique Latine. She speaks to Eve Jackson about how she operated under the radar, turning photography into political resistance.

As FRANCE 24 marks the one-year anniversary of the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, we speak to documentary filmmaker Mina Keshavarz – one of the many Iranian artists who have been jailed for their work. Her 2020 film "The Art of Living in Danger" follows a group of lawyers and activists as they fight against domestic violence, shining a light on Iran's long history of women's resistance. Keshavarz says that while she knows that this movement didn't happen overnight, it has both surprised her and given her hope.

To mark 50 years of hip hop, FRANCE 24’s culture team has recorded three special shows in New York – the birthplace of the culture. In part four of the series we’re in Paris, because France is the second largest hip hop market in the world after the United States. Hip hop expert and author Olivier Cachin talks to Eve Jackson about the history of French hip hop and why the music coming from the ghettos of New York struck a chord with young people in the French suburbs. We also hear from one of the pioneers, IAM’s Akhenaton and we have special archive images and footage of renowned rap group NTM.