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The Arts Hour: Bryan Cranston, Kamila Shamsie, Vieux Farka Toure

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Bryan Cranston, Kamila Shamsie, Vieux Farka Toure

13/02/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Bryan Cranston, Kamila Shamsie, Vieux Farka Toure

Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston on playing Dalton Trumbo

In The Arts Hour this week Bryan Cranston tells us about his Oscar nominated role as a blacklisted Hollywood writer.  The Malian musician Vieux Farka Toure talks about his new collaboration with American singer Julia Easterlin. The Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopachinskaja discusses musicians and madness and the Mayor of LA sings for us!  Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie shares some research secrets, violinist Nigel Kennedy claims conductors are unnecessary and we hear about the forty thousand bees who’ll be joining musicians to perform in a concert.

(Photo shows: Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo (c) Groundswell Productions, Kamila Shamsie (c) Shaun Curry/Getty, Vieux Farka Toure (c) Kevork Djansezian/Getty)

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