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World Service,13 Sep 2025,49 mins

Musician, podcaster and author Nabil Ayers

The Arts Hour

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Hollywood star Robin Wright on combining acting and directing in the hotly-discussed new television series The Girlfriend. Pioneering musician William Barton on the significance of the yidaki in Aboriginal Australian culture. Swedish big screen actor Alicia Vikander on being a child actor and performing in a musical written by the ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. American director Jay Roach discusses working with Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch in new divorce comedy, The Roses. And there’s music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who recently performed at the BBC Proms. Plus, Nikki talks to music powerhouse Nabil Ayers about his book My Life in the Sunshine and podcast Identified, along with critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Main image: Nabil Ayers Photo credit: Pooneh Ghana

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