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World Service,05 Dec 2020,53 mins

Actor Viggo Mortensen

The Arts Hour

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Viggo Mortensen tells us about his new movie Falling, in which he acts, directs and has also written Hollywood star Amy Adams talks about her role in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy Dolly Parton on losing a Dolly Parton lookalike contest and the woman who inspired her hit song Jolene The reigning queen of performance art Marina Abramović talks about subverting the TV experience We have music from Madagascar’s Modeste Hugues And we hear from this year’s Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart and former US President Barack Obama shares his thoughts on the power of books Joining Nikki Bedi in the studio is film critic Guy Lodge and on the line from Essex is Abi Daré, who’ll also be telling us about her novel The Girl with the Louding Voice, about a young house girl in Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo: Viggo Mortensen. Credit: Rich Polk via Getty Images)

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