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World Service,01 Apr 2023,49 mins

Actor Penn Badgley on playing a murderer

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is joined by filmmaker Tarik Saleh and critic Naima Khan to discuss the cultural highlights of the week. They hear from Penn Badgley, who discusses his role as serial killer Joe in the Netflix series You South African choreographer Dada Masilo on re-inventing Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Actor Vincent Cassel on creating a French anti-hero. Julianne Moore reveals that the script for her latest film, Sharper, came from a well respected blacklist. Egyptian Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh talks about his film Cairo Conspiracy, a story of power struggle between political and religious elites in Egypt American humourist David Sedaris describes his constant need, as a diarist, to be observing and recording life around him And there is music from French Lebanese trumpet player Ibrahim Malouf. (Photo: Penn Badgley. Credit: Jim Spellman/Getty Images)

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