Man Booker Prize Winner, Geena Davis, Suffragette
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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)
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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
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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
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