96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great
June Squibb on her role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great; We discuss the spate of museum heists in 2025; Artist Michael Fullerton on his portraits of asylum seekers.
Actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's debut feature Eleanor the Great, in which a woman in her 90s moves back from Florida to Manhattan and forms a friendship with a young journalism student - the film explores themes of grief, the Holocaust, truth and lies.
Jenny Colgan pays tribute to her fellow bestselling novelist Sophie Kinsella, whose death was announced today.
From the daring heist on the Louvre in Paris in October to the theft of Matisse artworks from Brazil's second-largest library just this week, we discuss 2025's spate of museum heists with investigative journalist Riah Pryor and with Sunna Altnoder of UNESCO, who have recently opened a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects.
Artist Michael Fullerton discusses the symbolism in his portraits of asylum seekers, painted during his time working in the kitchen of a hotel in Carlisle, and which are on display at Edinburgh's City Art Centre until March.
Presenter: Kirsty Wark
Producer: Mark Crossan
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