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Reviewing Paddington The Musical, Jafar Panahi's latest film, and Russell Tovey meets the Sea Devils

Tom and guests Arifa Akbar and Nick Hilton consider Paddington The Musical, Jafar Panahi's latest film: It Was Just An Accident and Russell Tovey meets the Sea Devils.

Tom and guests Arifa Akbar and Nick Hilton consider Paddington The Musical. It's the latest step for a beloved British institution... How does he work on stage? Is the bear believable? Are the songs memorable?

Iranian director Jafar Panahi's latest film has won the Palme d'Or. It Was Just An Accident, straddles a difficult gap between political commentary and a lightly comic look at revenge. He had to make this film in secret and has just been sentenced - in absentia - to a prison sentence by the Iranian authorities for "propaganda activities" against the country.

In The War Between the Land and the Sea, the latest offshoot of the Whoniverse, Russell Tovey plays a humble admin assistant who is promoted to humanity's Ambassador when the Sea Devils return and decide that humans need to be taught respect for their watery world.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe

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