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World Service,05 Aug 2017,49 mins

Jane Campion, Chi-chi Nwanoku, Luc Besson

The Arts Hour

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The French film director Luc Besson discusses his new film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, set in the 28th century aboard an enormous space station and starring Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan. Chi-chi Nwanoku tells us why she founded Europe’s first professional BME orchestra, Chineke! Oscar winning filmmaker Jane Campion talks about writing a role for and directing her own daughter in the TV series Top of the Lake. We hear from Batgirl illustrator Babs Tarr at Comic-Con San Diego. Composer Mark Anthony Turnage explains why writing his new work Hibiki was hard. And there’s music from The Tanzania Albinism Collective. Joining Nikki Bedi in discussion is the film expert Anton Bitel. (Image: Jane Campion © Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, Chi-chi Nwanoku © BBC, Luc Besson © Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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