Freeheld review, Anna Hope, Jack Garratt, Unexpected Eisenstein
Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld, novelist Anna Hope on her new book, and singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt.
Stella Duffy reviews Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld, based on the true story of lesbian police detective's struggle to have her pension transferred to her domestic partner after she is diagnosed with cancer.
Novelist Anna Hope discusses her new book, The Ballroom, a love story set in an asylum in Yorkshire in 1911 and set against a backdrop of changing attitudes towards poverty and mental illness.
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt on his début album, Phase.
Film historian Ian Christie shows Samira around his new exhibition of previously unseen drawings by pioneering Soviet film maker Sergei Eisenstein.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jack Soper.
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Anna Hope
Duration: 09:09
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Jack Garratt
Duration: 07:08
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Freeheld reviewed by Stella Duffy
Duration: 04:42
Anna Hope
Duration: 09:16
Jack Garratt
Duration: 07:11
Unexpected Eisenstein
Duration: 05:56
Freeheld
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Freeheld is in cinemas from Friday 19 February, certificate 12A.Jack Garratt
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Phase is released on Friday 19 February.
Image: Dan Harris
Anna Hope
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The Ballroom by Anna Hope is published by Penguin Random House.
Main image: Jonathan Greet
Unexpected Eisenstein
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Unexpected Eisenstein is running at Grad, London until 30 April 2016.
Further information is available at the Kino Klassika Foundation
Image: Costume designs for Mazzini Dunn, Boss Arthur Mangan and Randall Utterwood in Hearthbreak House.
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Stella Duffy Interviewed Guest Anna Hope Interviewed Guest Jack Garratt Interviewed Guest Ian Christie Producer Jack Soper Broadcast
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