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The Arts Hour: 14/11/2015 16:06 GMT: Bradley Cooper, Jonathan Franzen, George Takei

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Bradley Cooper, Jonathan Franzen, George Takei

14/11/2015 16:06 GMT

14/11/2015 16:06 GMT: Bradley Cooper, Jonathan Franzen, George Takei

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Bradley Cooper on his new role in the movie Burnt; Jonathan Franzen on his novel Freedom

Bradley Cooper on his new role in the celebrity-chef movie Burnt, author Jonathan Franzen on his novel Freedom and George Takei opens Broadway musical Allegiance.

Hollywood star Bradley Cooper on his new role in celebrity-chef movie Burnt. Mongolia’s new record shop in Ulan Bator means music fans no longer have to make the 600 mile desert trek to Beijing to buy vinyl. Tibetan ex-monk turned music star Ngawang talks about exile and playing live for the Dalai Lama. And, from Kolkata India, we meet maybe the country’s only bluegrass mandolin player and the band Fiddler’s Green who merge Asian and Celtic folk music. 

The US literary superstar Jonathan Franzen says how his irritation at George W Bush’s use of the word freedom inspired his novel Freedom. At the Nour Festival of contemporary art in London we explore the focus on Algerian identity in the exhibits. From Rwanda, we meet the band The Good Ones, comprising four survivors from different enemy tribes of the country’s 1994 genocide. And, original Star Trek TV actor George Takei opens Allegiance, a new musical on Broadway about the internment of 100,000 Japanese-Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbour in World War Two.

(Photo: Bradley Cooper (left), Jonathan Franzen (centre), George Takei (right). Credit: Getty Images)

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