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World Service,24 Jul 2021,49 mins

Director Quentin Tarantino

The Arts Hour

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On The Arts Hour this week, Nikki Bedi is joined by Icelandic novelist Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and critic Leila Latif to discuss cultural highlights of the week. Double Oscar winning screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino on turning his film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, into a novel. British Comedian Gina Yashere on her memoir Cack-Handed, her life as the child of Nigerian immigrants, being left handed and racism in the U.K and the U.S.A. Finnish director Zaida Bergroth discusses her biopic of Moomins creator and Finnish national treasure, Tove Jansson. British actor Vanessa Kirby on her role in the film The World To Come, set on the bleak American frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. Eva Björg Ægisdóttir talks about her best-selling crime thriller, Girls who Lie, the second in her Forbidden Iceland series. We hear from Italian producer and director Uberto Pasolini about his film Nowhere Special, and its moving story of a terminally ill single father, searching for a family to take care of his only son. And music from the Andean mountains of Colombia, with guide Betto Arcos. (Photo: Quentin Tarantino. Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via Getty Images)

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