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World Service,10 Nov 2018,53 mins

Actress Carey Mulligan

The Arts Hour

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Carey Mulligan talks about playing a thoroughly dislikeable character in her new film Wildlife. Ghanaian-American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on his new short story collection, and why the frantic shopping frenzy of Black Friday is a great subject for fiction. Chinese-American actress Lisa Lu, whose mother and godfather were stars of the Peking Opera reflects on her lifelong love affair with the artform. Playwright Sarah DeLappe talks about putting teenage girls centre stage in her new play The Wolves. Film director Erik Poppe on working with the survivors of the Norwegian terrorist attacks of 2011, to make a sensitive film about their experiences. And Nikki is joined in the studio for lively conversation by New Zealand writer Paula Morris, and cultural critic William Lee Adams (Photo: Carey Mulligan. Credit: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

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