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Man Booker Prize Winner, Geena Davis, Suffragette

The best global arts coverage from across the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ.

Booker Prize writing, and deaf DJ-ing with Nikki Bedi on The Arts Hour this week. And at autumn film season, we consider some of the prestige movie releases and premières. From Beasts of No Nation, we meet the cast and crew of a new drama about African child-soldiers.

We discover new films about disintegrating families from Sweden, Japan and France with critic Tara Judah. Sarah Gavron, director of womens’ vote film Suffragette argues that violent protest helped create social change. And Thelma and Louise actress Geena Davis addresses how to get more women into films.

The Jamaican winner of the Booker Prize, Marlon James, discusses his book about the attempted assassination of reggae legend Bob Marley in the 1970s: A Brief History of Seven Killings. We also got deaf DJ Robbie Wilde who works via vibration and muscle memory. We take a trip to Czech Republic to visit the small-town world centre of the flourishing vinyl record manufacturing industry. Finally African-American tenor Noah Stewart on his new role in Carmen and how to deal with love-interest stage singers who suffer from bad breath.

(Photo: Marlon James (c) Getty Images, Geena Davis (c) Getty Images, Carey Mulligan (c) Pathe)

50 minutes

Last on

Tue 20 Oct 2015 01:06GMT

Music and featured items

  • Beasts Of No Nation

    We meet the cast and crew of a new drama about African child-soldiers

    Duration: 07:07

  • BFI London Film Festival

    We discover new films about disintegrating families with critic Tara Judah

    Duration: 06:39

  • Suffragette

    Director Sarah Gavron on the film Suffragette about the fight for women's votes

    Duration: 05:21

  • Geena Davis

    Hollywood actress Geena Davis on her mission to address gender inequality in film and TV

    Duration: 03:51

  • 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner

    Marlon James is the first Jamaican novelist to win the Man Booker Prize

    Duration: 10:03

  • DJ Robbie Wilde

    Deaf DJ Robbie Wilde, who uses vibrations to literally feel his tracks

    Duration: 05:27

  • Carmen

    Tenor Noah Stewart discusses Scottish Opera's upcoming production of Bizet's Carmen

    Duration: 05:32

  • Vinyl Records

    The global centre of the vinyl record manufacturing industry is in the Czech Republic

    Duration: 01:58

  • M83

    The Kiss

  • Rudimental

    Not Giving In

  • Bob Marley

    Stir it Up

  • Corinne Bailey Rae

    Put Your Records On

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Run the World

  • JAY-Z

    Big Pimpin

  • John Newman

    Come and Get It

  • Maria Callas

    Carmen

  • Bizet

    Suite I Entracte Acte 4 Aragonaise

  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round Like A Record

Broadcasts

  • Sat 17 Oct 2015 11:06GMT
  • Sun 18 Oct 2015 22:06GMT
  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 08:06GMT
  • Tue 20 Oct 2015 01:06GMT