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The Arts Hour: Musician Steve Martin

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27/04/2013

Musician Steve Martin

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Musician Steve Martin

"I was really happy being a movie star, that's a nice job"  Steve Martin

"I was really happy being a movie star, that's a nice job" says  Steve Martin.

Join Nikki Bedi for Steve Martin on his new banjo album with Edie Brickell; the Danish director of Pierce Brosnan's Love is All You Need says that English is a less brutal language than her native tongue and there's new play The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei.  Also actor Alec Baldwin talks to Singing in the Rain star Debbie Reynolds; the new 'voice of angelic beauty' Julia Lezhneva sings live; Tanika Gupta talks about 19th century Indian emigration in her new play The Empress and we celebrate a Heavy Metal milestone in Los Angeles where The Roxy Theatre celebrates 40 years on the scene.

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