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World Service,16 Jun 2018,49 mins

Australian Film Actress Toni Collette

The Arts Hour

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Australian actress Toni Collette talks about her new movie Hereditary. The Queen of Icelandic crime writing, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, tells Nikki about her new book The Reckoning. Canadian author Margaret Atwood reflects on whether her classic book The Handmaid’s Tale is more relevant today. Trinidadian jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles discusses his current album San Jose Suite. We hear from the Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage who has been described as "Africa’s Beyonce”. Jazz singer and actress Jumoké Fashola tells Nikki about her role as Wife Number One in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a play about polygamy adapted from Lola Shoneyin’s bestselling novel. Plus, music from Femi Kuti. (Photo: Toni Collette in Hereditary © Palmstar Media)

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