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The Arts Hour: Gurinder Chadha, Martin Scorsese, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

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Gurinder Chadha, Martin Scorsese, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

18/03/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Gurinder Chadha, Martin Scorsese, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

British Asian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha tells me about her new film Viceroy's House

Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese reveals his tricks for getting films financed and tells us about Robert De Niro’s improvisational skills.   British Asian director Gurinder Chadha explains why her film about Partition was a very personal project.    Grime star Stormzy tells us why musicians should lay themselves bare.
Film maker and poet Mahmood Jamal tells us why he’s transposed Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure to modern day Pakistan in his new film Rahm.
Vengeful female ghosts...why are we so fascinated by them?  We hear why playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has put one on stage.  Robert Evans is the movie mogul who gave us The Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby and Love Story.  British actor and director Simon McBurney tells us about staging his life.
Presenter Nikki Bedi is joined by poet and film-maker Mahmood Jamal and British-Nigerian director Joseph Adesunloye  in the studio.

(Photo shows: Gurinder Chadha (c) Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images, Martin Scorsese (c) Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images , Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (c) Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

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