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World Service,23 Sep 2023,49 mins

Actor and producer Millie Bobby Brown

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is joined by critic Leila Latif and comedian and director Mike Birbiglia, to discuss the cultural highlights of the week. Millie Bobby Brown, best known for her award-nominated performance as Eleven in Stranger Things, and for producing and starring in the Enola Holmes films, talks about her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, based on her grandmother’s life in the East End of London during World War Two. Director Pablo Larrain gives an insight into his fantasy film, El Conde, which portrays Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire. Actor Boots Riley shares how his debut film, Sorry To Bother You, which focused on a black telemarketer who achieves success when he discovers he can use his 'white voice' on sales calls, was inspired by his own stint in telesales. The Queen of fashion Dame Anna Wintour, Global Editorial Director of fashion magazine Vogue, talks about arts funding and also about London's new fashion and performance spectacular, Vogue World. And US stand-up comedian, actor, storyteller, director, producer and writer Mike Birbiglia, discusses his career and his latest stage show, The Old Man And The Pool. Presenter: Nikki Bedi Producer: Paul Waters (Photo: Actor Millie Bobby Brown. Credit: Jun Sato/Getty Images)

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