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Jessica Chastain, Ali Smith, Bob Copper at 100, the Art of the Self-Portrait

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Jessica Chastain on her new film A Most Violent Year, the lack of diversity in Hollywood, and how she feels about missing out on an Oscar nomination this time.

Ahead of his centenary celebrations this weekend, the late British folk legend Bob Copper is remembered by singer Shirley Collins, Bob's grandson Ben Copper, and Jon Boden, singer and fiddle player with multi-award-winning innovative folk big band Bellowhead.

Art critic Richard Cork reviews Self: Image and Identity - Self-portraiture from Van Dyck to Louise Bourgeois at Turner Contemporary in Margate.

Ali Smith won this year's Costa Novel Award for How to be Both, a novel in two parts which can be read in either order. She tells John about the real painting that inspired the book.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Ellie Bury. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Producer:
Ellie Bury
Interviewed Guest:
Jessica Chastain
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Collins
Interviewed Guest:
Ben Copper
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Boden

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