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World Service,02 Mar 2019,53 mins

Film actress Rosamund Pike

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is joined by film critic Tara Judah and by actor and artistic director of the Norwegian Ibsen Company Kåre Conradi, who discusses his latest theatre production, The Lady from the Sea. British actress Rosamund Pike reveals the lengths she went to in order to portray the late war correspondent Marie Colvin in the film A Private War Actor turned director Chiwetel Ejiofor tells us about learning a Malawian language in order to truly tell the story of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind The grandmother of performance art Marina Abramović explains why she is using augmented reality in her new piece called This Life The Queen of Hip-hop Soul Mary J. Blige tells us she wants to be in the same class as Meryl Streep when it comes to her acting We hear how censorship in the Middle East compares to that in the United States from comedian Nemr And music from ground breaking guitarist Xuefei Yang Image shows Rosamund Pike in A Private War (c) Allstar/Aviron Pictures

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