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World Service,01 Aug 2020,53 mins

Actor Lucy Liu

The Arts Hour

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This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi: actor Lucy Liu tells us about lockdown in New York, director Christopher Nolan revisits his breakthrough film Memento and artist Anish Kapoor takes us around his new outdoor sculpture exhibition. Director Amma Asante discusses the new TV series Mrs America and we enjoy music from the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and singer-songwriter Jeremy Dutcher. Joining Nikki to discuss the week’s cultural highlights are film critic MaryAnn Johanson and Man Booker prize winning author DBC Pierre, who also tells us about his new novel Meanwhile in Dopamine City. (Photo: Lucy Liu. Credit: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

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