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World Service,27 Feb 2021,53 mins

Actor Daniel Kaluuya

The Arts Hour

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On this week’s Arts Hour, Nikki Bedi speaks to film critic Leila Latif and filmmaker Fernando Frias de la Parra about about his film I’m No Longer Here, Mexico’s entry for this year’s Oscars. We’ll also hear from actor Daniel Kaluuya who reveals how an opera coach helped him prepare for his role as American activist Fred Hampton in Judas and The Black Messiah. Actor and writer Ethan Hawke explains why he’s finally allowing his fiction to mirror his own life. We’ll hear how Parv Kaur, the UK’s first female dhol player, broke into the male-dominated world of bhangra music. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg speaks candidly about the tragedy which overshadowed his latest film Another Round. British director Paul Greengrass on what it was like directing Tom Hanks in his movie News of The World. And we hear a beautiful Guyanese lullaby from singer Sabihya. (Photo: actor Daniel Kaluuya. Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage)

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