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By\u00a0Jeff Bercovici, Forbes Staff –<\/strong><\/p>\n

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M.I.A., cable TV theme music composer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s T-minus four days until\u00a0Julian Assange<\/a>\u2018s new talk show debuts on Russia Today, and while no one\u2019s saying who the first guest will be, one interesting detail has come to light: The show\u2019s theme music was written by Sri Lankan hip hop star M.I.A.<\/p>\n

The performer, whose offstage name is Maya Arulpragasam, composed original music for \u201cThe World Tomorrow,\u201d which is set to air beginning April 17. A spokesman for Wikileaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, says M.I.A. met with Assange in London, where he has been under house arrest for more than a year.<\/p>\n

The daughter of a leader from the Tamil separatist movement, M.I.A. has been an outspoken supporter of Assange and Wikileaks. In 2010, she released a free mixtape called \u201cVicki Leekx\u201d in tribute, and she has often mentioned Assange and his cause\u00a0on Twitter<\/a>, where she has more than 365,000 followers. Earlier today, she\u00a0retweeted a post by Wikileaks<\/a>\u00a0saying, \u201cM.I.A. is the Julian Assange of pop music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will she also be a guest on the show? I\u2019m guessing the answer is yes, but Assange and RT are keeping the guest list under wraps. In a press release from the network, Assange is quoted as saying his guests will be \u201cglobal notables\u201d who \u201cnormally simply would not be given a voice on TV at all. What is fair to say is that the majority of what they have said to me they could not say on a mainstream TV network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Certainly, M.I.A. has been given a voice on TV, but mainstream networks might not be so eager to do that again after she flashed the middle finger during her halftime performance at the Super Bowl in February. NBC and the NFL\u00a0apologized publicly for the incident<\/a>. (Courtesy\u00a0http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE&feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n

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