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Internationally acclaimed actor Sir Ian McKellen will host the BBC World Service HIV/AIDS Concert, scheduled for transmission around the world on Saturday, November 22.
The concert will feature Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits from Zimbabwe, the charismatic Malian singer Rokia Traoré, the poet and author Veronique Tadjo from South Africa, UK hit singer-songwriter Daniel Bedingfield, the Russian violinist Vadim Repin, accompanied on piano by Itamar Golan, the British poet Lemn Sissay, the virtuoso Chinese musician Liu Fang and actors Debora Weston and Clive Wedderburn performing an excerpt from Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart.
The concert will be transmitted around the world on all eight of the BBC World Service's English-language streams. It will also be carried on all forty-two of the network's language services. The concert forms part of a season of special programming on radio and online in the run up to World Aids Day on December 1.
The concert will begin at 18:05 GMT on Saturday, November 22. International transmission times are available on the BBC website.
The concert will feature Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits from Zimbabwe, the charismatic Malian singer Rokia Traoré, the poet and author Veronique Tadjo from South Africa, UK hit singer-songwriter Daniel Bedingfield, the Russian violinist Vadim Repin, accompanied on piano by Itamar Golan, the British poet Lemn Sissay, the virtuoso Chinese musician Liu Fang and actors Debora Weston and Clive Wedderburn performing an excerpt from Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart.
The concert will be transmitted around the world on all eight of the BBC World Service's English-language streams. It will also be carried on all forty-two of the network's language services. The concert forms part of a season of special programming on radio and online in the run up to World Aids Day on December 1.
The concert will begin at 18:05 GMT on Saturday, November 22. International transmission times are available on the BBC website.
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