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World Service,01 Feb 2025,49 mins

Author Nayantara Roy

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is in conversation with the multi award-winning British filmmaker Mike Leigh, who’s reunited with actor Marianne Jean Baptiste for his latest film Hard Truths. Korean American author Juhea Kim reveals the mystical inspiration for her award-winning first novel. Oscar-nominated American actor Colman Domingo talks about working with a cast of former inmates as opposed to actors in the prison set film Sing Sing. And Nikki is joined by the Indian American author Nayantara Roy who'll be talking about her debut novel The Magnificent Ruins. Katie Puckrik is Nikki’s cultural critic. (Photo: Nayantara Roy. Credit: Alex Wall)

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