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World Service,21 Nov 2020,53 mins

Actor Tilda Swinton

The Arts Hour

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Oscar-winning British actor Tilda Swinton tells us why she wanted to work with Pedro Almodóvar on his film The Human Voice Pop princess Kylie Minogue on bringing ‘the disco’ to 2020 with her latest album Irish crime fiction author Tana French explains why she needed an American lead character for her novel The Searcher South African cellist Abel Selaocoe on bringing together Western classical and African traditional music Film producer Cathy Schulman tells us how Hollywood is dealing with the pandemic And veteran Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner describes how he got around the communist censors Joining Nikki Bedi in the studio is critic Leila Latif and on the line from Brooklyn is Rumaan Alam, who’ll also be telling us about his latest book, Leave the World Behind, which has had film companies clamouring to adapt it. (Photo: Tilda Swinton. Credit: Dominique Charriau/Getty Images)

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