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The Arts Hour: Eddie Redmayne, Gurinder Chadha, Michael Keaton

Eddie Redmayne, Gurinder Chadha, Michael Keaton

10/01/2015

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Eddie Redmayne, Gurinder Chadha, Michael Keaton

Eddie Redmayne on playing physicist Stephen Hawking, Gurinder Chadha and Michael Keaton

Eddie Redmayne on playing Stephen Hawking, Gurinder Chadha on taking her film Bend it Like Beckham to the stage and we hear from Michael Keaton on new movie Birdman.

This week on The Arts Hour, actor Eddie Redmayne discusses playing physicist & cosmologist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

We learn about the Hungry Generation - angry young poets in 1960s Calcutta, whose antics inspired American Beat writer Allen Ginsberg.

The Seattle duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis explain how they're changing hip hop.   British Asian film director Gurinder Chadha tells us why she's so excited to transfer her film Bend It Like Beckham to the stage as a musical.  

We discover the lengths to which people will go to steal a violin, well not just any violin, but the Lipinski Stradivarius.   Hollywood actor Michael Keaton distances himself from the character he's playing in the new movie Birdman.   And we also pay tribute to one of Italy's most famous singer-songwriters Pino Daniele.

(Photo: Eddie Mayne (c) Jason Merritt/Getty, Gurinder Chadha (c) Rommel Demano/Getty, Michael Keaton (c) Jason Merritt/Getty)

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