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The Arts Hour: Canadian Poet and Novelist Margaret Atwood

Matt Damon, Atumpan and Margaret Atwood

31/08/2013

Canadian Poet and Novelist Margaret Atwood

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Canadian Poet and Novelist Margaret Atwood

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood tells us how technology and creative writing can mix

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood tells us how technology and creative writing can mix.

Matt Damon considers ageism in Hollywood and his latest film Elysium; Ghanaian afrobeat superstar Atumpan performs his smash hit The Thing for us;  Somalian writer Nadifa Mohamed draws on her family's war-torn history for her latest novel The Orchard of Lost Souls; we hear from the son of the recently deceased crime writer Elmore Leonard to discover his take on his father's famous 10 rules of writing. Hailed as one of the greatest auteur film makers Wong Kar War drops by to talk about his latest film The Grandmaster about the 20th Century Kung Fu maestro who famously trained Bruce Lee.

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