Australian Art at the RA, Rory Kinnear

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As the largest historical survey of Australian art ever to be displayed outside Australia opens at the Royal Academy of Art, Samira Ahmed talks to the exhibition's curator and to Edmund Capon, former director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, whose television series The Art of Australia starts next month. Actor Rory Kinnear, currently playing Iago to Adrian Lester's Othello at the National Theatre, discusses the challenges of writing his first play which has just opened at London's Bush Theatre. Kit Davis assesses a landmark of American cinema, Michael Roemer's 1964 film Nothing But A Man. Reputedly Malcolm X's favourite movie, it was a pioneering production depicting the life of a black railroad worker in segregated 1960s Alabama. Although critically acclaimed, the film sunk into obscurity following a marketing campaign that tried to conceal the fact that the film was about African-Americans. Roger Highfield and Eliane Glaser discuss the idea of the scientist as hero and curator of wonder as a new series presented by popular scientist Brian Cox starts on TV and a biopic of Stephen Hawking opens in cinemas.