Toni Morrison, Hyeonseo Lee, Jake Gyllenhaal
Toni Morrison looks back at her formative influences, author Hyeonseo Lee on defecting from North Korea and Jake Gyllenhaal on playing a professional boxer.
Toni Morrison looks back at her formative influences; renowned Hong Kong director Shu-wing Tang discusses his new production of Shakespeare鈥檚 Macbeth. Jake Gyllenhaal explains how he prepared to play a professional boxer in his new film. American backing vocalist Lisa Fischer compares notes with Bollywood playback singer Kanika Kapoor and author Hyeonseo Lee describes how she defected from North Korea at the age of 17. We meet the father and son team who train animals to perform in film, Nigerian author Dillibe Onyeama speculates on why the Igbo people have produced so many leading authors and we find out whether adding sound to a picture can enhance it.
(Photo: Left to right, Toni Morrison (c) Patrick Kovarik/Getty Images, Hyeonseo Lee (c) 成人快手, Jake Gyllenhaal (c) Robin Marchant/Getty Images)
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Dillibe Onyeama on Nigeria's great authors
Duration: 03:39
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Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize winning author
Duration: 06:23
Lisa Fischer and Kanika Kapoor
The backing singer and the playback singer discuss their crafts
Duration: 07:19
Hyeonseo Lee
North Korean author describes how she escaped from the brutal regime at the age of 17.
Duration: 05:25
Training animal actors
Jim and Jamie Club train animals and insects, from wolves to flies, for the movies
Duration: 03:51
Chinese Macbeth
Hong Kong director Shu-wing Tang discusses his new production of Shakespeare鈥檚 Macbeth
Duration: 11:05
Jake Gyllenhaal
The American actor talks about his new movie, Southpaw
Duration: 05:33
Dillibe Onyeama
The Nigerian author on why the Igbo people have produced so many leading authors
Duration: 04:42
Soundscapes
New exhibition at the National Gallery, London
Duration: 05:08
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Kanika Kapoor
Baby Doll
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Jason Moyer
Meng Jiang Mourns Her Lost Husband
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Oliver De Coque and His Expo '76
People's Club of Nigeria Anniversary
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Survivor
Eye Of The Tiger
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William Byrd
My Lord of Oxenforde's Masque
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Michael Andrews
Mad World (feat. Gary Jules)
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Bill Conti
Gonna Fly Now
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Duran Duran
Hungry Like the Wolf
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Charlie Parker
Don't Blame Me
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Kanika Kapoor
Lovely
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Eminem
King Never Die
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Chris Watson
Lake Keitele
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Nico Muhly
Long Phases
Hyeonseo Lee
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Hyeonseo Lee discusses her memoir, The Girl with Seven Names.
(Photo shows Samira Ahmed and Hyeonseo Lee (c) 成人快手)Broadcasts
- Sat 18 Jul 2015 11:05GMT成人快手 World Service Online
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