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World Service,09 Jul 2022,49 mins

Director Carrie Cracknell

The Arts Hour

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Hollywood star Steve Carrell about his decision to become an actor. U2's Bono tells us how the band has stayed together for nearly fifty years....and how did he get that name? Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke talks about his role in the supernatural thriller The Black Phone The Pakistani-born writer Kamila Shamsie discusses the importance of creating a sense of place Jordanian filmmaker Darin J Sallam tells us about her film set in a small Palestinian village in 1948 And live music from Nigerian superstar, Burna Boy Nikki is joined by film and theatre director Carrie Cracknell, talking about her new big screen adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion and by critic, podcaster and cultural commentator Leila Latif. (Main Image: Carrie Cracknell. Photo credit: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

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