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World Service,18 Apr 2020,53 mins

Actor John Turturro

The Arts Hour

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On this week’s The Arts Hour Nikki Bedi’s guests are commentator William Lee Adams and novelist Bernardine Evaristo, who won the prestigious Booker Prize for her novel Girl, Woman, Other. Actor John Turturro tells us about playing Jesus Quintana again in a comedy road movie Author AL Kennedy on her latest collections of short stories, We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time, and writing during this difficult situation We’ll take a musical road trip through Norway with Arne Berg World renowned DJ and dance music producer MJ Cole explains the emotional impact of creating his latest album Madrugada And two poets, Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, on what poetry means to them as Muslim women and how they’ve created a community through their collection, Halal If You Hear Me. Image: John Turturro Image credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

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