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World Service,23 Jan 2021,53 mins

Actor Vanessa Kirby

The Arts Hour

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British actress Vanessa Kirby on her hardest role yet and why she’d rather not play heroines. British movie star and rapper Riz Ahmed talks about getting his teeth into his latest film Sound Of Metal. We hear from Nathan Evans, the Scottish postman behind the TikTok Sea Shanty craze. Oscar-winning actress Regina King on her directorial feature film debut One Night in Miami. Gambian-British rapper Pa Salieu talks about the tragedy that spurred him to success. Writer Nadifa Mohamed pays tribute to the late Somali musician Hudeidi. Joining Nikki Bedi is film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, and down the line from LA to talk about his new film The Life Ahead, starring the great Sophia Loren, is Italian filmmaker Edoardo Ponti. (Photo: Actor Vanessa Kirby. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

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