Ai Weiwei on his new artwork History of Bombs

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This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi: Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei on his installation, 'History of Bombs'; British actor and poet Jade Anouka on Her and Her, a short film made entirely in lockdown; and Irenosen Okojie, winner of the 2020 Caine Prize for African writing on her short story Grace Jones. British actor Gemma Arterton on the UK cinema release of her film, Summerland; author Avni Doshi reflects on the difficult mother-daughter relationship in her Booker Prize nominated novel Burnt Sugar; and music from Texan soul duo Black Pumas. Nikki's special guest is Irish Canadian novelist, playwright and screenwriter Emma Donoghue. Academy Award nominated for the film adaptation of her own bestseller, Room, she very presciently set her latest novel, The Pull Of The Stars, in the Great Flu pandemic of 1918. (Photo: Ai Weiwei. Credit: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)