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World Service,19 Jan 2019,53 mins

Karyn Kusama on Directing Nicole Kidman in Destroyer

The Arts Hour

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M Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense) tells us about his new movie Glass. Argentinian ballerina Marianela Nunez talks about pre-performance nerves. Film director Reinaldo Marcus Green tells Nikki about his award winning debut feature film Monsters and Men Karyn Kusama, whose movie Destroyer stars Nicole Kidman, talks about directing the actress. Actor and director Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) traces the connection between classical music and jazz. Kirill Gerstein, the acclaimed Russian American concert pianist, tells us why he’s chosen to take on Busonis’s hugely challenging piano concerto. We hear from actors Steve Coogan and John C Reilly about inhabiting the roles of Laurel and Hardy in the film Stan and Ollie. There’s music from Rosalia, the Catalan singer and songwriter whose music fuses pop with flamenco. Photo: Karyn Kusama (c) Mike Marsland/Getty Images

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