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How creatives write, perform and make art, design and music. The home of arts and culture from BBC World Service. In The Studio follows the world’s leading creative figures while they work. Nikki Bedi hosts The Arts Hour, with news of the latest releases from around the world, and in World Book Club Harriett Gilbert puts your questions and comments to best-selling authors. In the Studio episodes are released on Tuesdays, The Arts Hour with you on Fridays and World Book Club drops on the first Saturday of each month.

  1. hace 2 días

    In the Studio: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

    Camilla Costa follows Sri Lankan/Australian artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran as he creates a work of art in a London park. The new work explores themes of religious iconography, migration and identity. Ramesh explains why he has been influenced by artworks that were produced hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. And why he doesn't like colonial monuments.

    In the Studio: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

  2. hace 5 días

    World Book Club: Ocean Vuong : On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    William Lee Adams is joined by Ocean Vuong to discuss his acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — a luminous and unflinching exploration of family, identity, memory and the complexities of love. The story unfolds as a letter from Little Dog, a young Vietnamese American man, to his mother, Rose, who is unable to read. Through this intimate act of storytelling, he traces his childhood in Hartford, Connecticut, the inherited trauma of his family’s experiences of war and migration, and the complicated bond between mother and son. As Little Dog reflects on his coming of age, his first love with a boy named Trevor, and the tenderness and brutality that can coexist in human relationships, he searches for a language capable of expressing what his family has struggled to articulate. Moving between personal memory and collective history, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous examines the lasting effects of war, the experience of being an outsider, the challenges of growing up queer, and the ways violence and love can become entangled across generations. With its striking imagery, poetic prose and profound emotional honesty, the novel asks what it means to tell our own stories when the people we love may never be able to hear them. Ocean Vuong will be answering questions from our global audience of book lovers. Why craft the novel as a letter to an illiterate recipient? How does he approach the craft of poetry and prose? And are working class authors under threat in contemporary literature?

    World Book Club: Ocean Vuong : On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  3. hace 6 días

    The Arts Hour. Indian actor and mega-star Ranbir Kapoor

    : Nikki Bedi speaks to Indian mega-star and actor, Rabir Kapoor who plays Lord Ram in the epic new movie Ramayana: Rise of a Legend Plus, critic Badisha discusses this week’s cultural highlights: Hollywood star and revered actor John Malkovich on his latest film, Wild Horse Nine Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña on her work including her decision to travel to England Oscar winning British actor Olivia Colman and Emmy Award winning Swedish star Alexander Skarsgard on their folk-frolic film, Wicker

  4. 3 nov

    In the Studio: Vietnamese Cinema

    Tuyet Vah Huynh meets two film-makers in Hanoi, Nguyen Duy Anh and Bui Kim Quy . Tuyet explains how cinema is booming in Vietnam. In 2025, more than 70 million cinema tickets were sold, and Vietnamese films took more than sixty per cent of the domestic box office. And yet, for audiences in Britain and much of the world, Vietnamese cinema can still feel largely undiscovered. Vietnam has been making films for generations, but outside the country, the image of Vietnam on screen has often been shaped by Hollywood, films about Vietnam, rather than films made by Vietnamese film.

  5. 30 oct

    The Arts Hour Indian-Irish poet Nikita Gill

    Nikki Bedi speaks to superstar Irish-Indian poet and New York Times-Bestselling author Nikita Gill about her latest “novel in verse Styx: The River” Plus critic Kohinoor Sahota discusses this week’s cultural highlights: Oscar-winners Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison on their new film, The Social Reckoning “Kinetic artist” Liliane Lijn on growing up in a multi-lingual household and being given Salvador Dali's moustache! South African actor John Kani (King T’Chaka in Black Panther) on playing Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest And fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe alum Florence Pugh on playing "fallen woman" Cathy Ames in the epic new Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden

  6. 27 oct

    In the Studio: Yuko Mohri

    Neil McCarthy meets Japanese artist Yuko Mohri, as she prepares for a major exhibition. Her sculptures often fuse ordinary objects, such as umbrellas, feather dusters and apples, with unstable forces such as air and water. The results are works of kinetic art that are constantly changing and evolving, as Neil discovers.

    In the Studio: Yuko Mohri

  7. 23 oct

    The Arts Hour: Elif Shafak

    Nikki Bedi speaks to the Turkish-born author about her new novel In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Using the voices of different women, Shafak tells the story of 19th century French writer Gustave Flaubert, whose famous book Madame Bovary forever shaped modern fiction. We hear from New Zealand's Taika Waititi about Klara and the Sun, his new film based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Jamaican author Marlon James discusses The Disappearers, his new Booker-shortlisted story about 1980s homophobia. French director Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, his new biopic of outsider Danish architect Otto von Spreckelsen And as a new adaptation of Sense & Sensibility hits the cinemas, British star Daisy Edgar Jones and Australian screenwriter Diana Reid make the case for Jane Austen's enduring relevance and wit. Joining to give his take on the week's cultural highlights is Guy Lodge, chief film critic at Variety magazine. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

  8. 20 oct

    In the Studio: Joachim Trier

    Another chance to go behind the scenes with director Joachim Trier as he makes the follow-up to his international hit The Worst Person In The World. Stephen Hughes got exclusive access to the set of Sentimental Value, following the film from pre to post production. In a series of candid interviews, the writer-director reveals the anxiety he feels every time he has to make a movie, and how he is helped by his loyal team: screenwriter Eskil Vogt and producers Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Mone Mikkelsen and Lars Thomas Skare.

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How creatives write, perform and make art, design and music. The home of arts and culture from BBC World Service. In The Studio follows the world’s leading creative figures while they work. Nikki Bedi hosts The Arts Hour, with news of the latest releases from around the world, and in World Book Club Harriett Gilbert puts your questions and comments to best-selling authors. In the Studio episodes are released on Tuesdays, The Arts Hour with you on Fridays and World Book Club drops on the first Saturday of each month.

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