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World Service,22 Jan 2022,49 mins

Actor and director Romola Garai

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is joined by actor-director Romola Garai to talk about her directorial debut Amulet, a gothic horror story, and by the critic and culture writer Bilal Qureshi. They discuss Denzel Washington in The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Chinese American director Jessica Kingdon’s look at The Chinese Dream in her documentary Ascension, and another documentary Cow which follows the life of its bovine star, Luma; we hear from director Andrea Arnold. Sean Baker, director of The Florida Project and Tangerine has a new release, Red Rocket, about a failed adult film industry star. Director Mathew Vaughan, talks about recreating the trenches of World War One for his latest; The King’s Man. And there’s some climate crisis poetry from the Contains Strong Language Festival. (Photo: Romola Garai. Credit: Stefania D'Alessandro/Getty)

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