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In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with one half of French duo Papooz, Ulysse Cottin, as the pair drop their fourth studio album "Resonate".

The second set of performers for the 2024 Grammy Awards has been announced with Travis Scott, Luke Combs and Burna Boy set to play. All three artists are nominated for awards at this year’s show taking place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4. Scott’s Utopia is nominated for Best Rap Album and he also performed at the awards ceremony in 2019.

Over 70 items belonging to Nelson Mandela are due to go on auction in New York in February, but the South African government is trying to block the sale.

A booker prize nominated author has told FRANCE 24 that he wakes up every day grateful that he’s able to reflect on his own life in his work. Brandon Taylor was born into a small, Baptist, conservative community in Alabama, where he felt he never fitted in as a gay person. His books, semi-autobiographical, are full of identity politics.

Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the movie that won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Film and Best Actress Golden Globes, "Poor Things". Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, it's a Victorian-era comic romp tipped for an Oscar or two.

Lucy Guerin joined FRANCE 24's Alison Sargent to discuss her works "Pendulum" and "How To Be Us", presented at Paris's Chaillot national dance theatre as part of the "Go Australia" event.

King Charles is said to have been at his private residence in Balmoral when he was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate.

TV critic Dheepthika Laurent speaks to Eve Jackson about the winners at TV’s night of nights, the Emmy Awards. We also make the difficult choice among January’s news shows to give you our top picks of the month including the glossy World War II series with Austin Butler – “Masters of the Air”, Nicole Kidman's thriller “Expats” and a biographical drama about Spanish fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga.

Today’s Focus report takes us to Japan where we take a deep dive into the Otokonoko subculture. Born from the world of mangas in the early 2000s, Otokonokos are usually men who dress in feminine clothing for entertainment – much like drag culture. It’s not a completely new phenomenon however, as cross dressing in Japan dates back three centuries.

Robert Robert is a DJ-turned-singer-songwriter from Quebec who has just released his second album in French, "Bienvenue Au Pays", and has begun touring both sides of the Atlantic. He popped by FRANCE 24 to introduce himself and his music.

O'Connor's death prompted an outpouring of sympathy from her legions of fans including other musicians and celebrities around the world, particularly in her homeland of Ireland.

S. Leo Chiang is a Taiwanese-American film director based in San Francisco and Taipei. His most recent short film "Island in Between", about his deeply complex relationship with his Taiwanese identity – specifically in relation to China – has been nominated for an Oscar.