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World Service,15 Mar 2025,49 mins

Director Joe Wright

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi talks with British director Joe Wright about his epic TV series, Mussolini: Son of the Century And with Swedish-Polish director Magnus von Horn, discussing his Oscar-nominated film The Girl with the Needle. Indian author Santanu Bhattacharya reveals why he chose to tell a three generational gay story in his latest novel, Deviants. The Chinese born Oscar winning director Chloe Zhao talks about how her Eastern culture shows through in her films And there’s music from Coldplay Nikki’s cultural critic is Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. (Luca Marinelli as Mussolini in the TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century; Credit: Sky Italy)

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