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On The Arts Hour this week, Nikki Bedi is joined by New York author Mateo Askaripour and cineaste Larushka Ivan-Zadeh to discuss cultural highlights of the week. Sir Michael Caine on his latest film role playing a cantankerous alcoholic writer in Best Sellers. Nobel prize winning writer Wole Soyinka on Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, his first novel for almost half a century. Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the UK Booker literary prize for Girl, Woman, Other, on her first non-fiction book Manifesto: On Never Giving Up. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen explains his tightly bound screen presence in the film Riders of Justice. Mateo Askaripour, discusses his New York Times best selling novel Black Buck and its satire on race and corporate America. British Actor Cush Jumbo talks about her on-stage performance as Shakespeare’s Hamlet. And British Sri Lankan artist Abi Sampa talks about playing the electric veena and singing Qawwali music. (Photo: Sir Michael Caine. Credit: Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images)
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