Duration: 15.41
Writer and ex-crime journalist David Simon, who created HBO TV drama The Wire, speaks to Observer editor John Mulholland about capitalism, Margaret Thatcher and how anti-drug enforcement has evolved into social control. Simon features in Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The House I Live In, which explores the war on drugs in the US
Duration: 4.04
Tightrope walker Chris Bull explains how he stays on a rope while walking 10 metres off the ground. Chris, who will perform his act at the 2013 Glastonbury music festival, also reveals his daily routine in order to maintain his skills
Duration: 4.28
Sam Lee, whose folk album Ground of Its Own was nominated for the 2012 Mercury music prize, takes us to Kent to meet one of his musical inspirations, Freda Black, an 85-year-old Romany singer. Sam is on a quest to record ancient folk songs sung by generations of Travellers including Freda, to capture the tradition in its purest form
Duration: 6.24
A key work of The Rest is Noise festival at London’s Southbank in 2013 is Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph, at the festival to speak about the fascination of jazz and black music for composers such as Stravinsky, talks to Imogen Tilden about the Russian composer’s visionary classical work