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World Service,07 Dec 2019,53 mins

American actor Chadwick Boseman

The Arts Hour

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On The Arts Hour this week with Nikki Bedi, German Nigerian author Olumide Popoola and film critic and cultural commentator Tara Judah discuss the hottest topics in arts and culture. Black Panther and Avengers’ star Chadwick Boseman takes on Martin Scorsese’s attitude to Marvel movies. Kasi Lemmons, director of the new biopic about Harriet Tubman, warns against the ‘fuzzification’ of black heroes. We meet The Adebanjos… the Nigerian family in London at the centre of a sit-com now on Netflix. Rapper Wretch 32 gives a lesson in songwriting. And French actress and director Mati Diop tells us about her haunting film Atlantics set in Senegal. (Photo shows Chadwick Boseman (c) Valerie Macon/Getty Images)

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