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The Arts Hour: Ayobami Adebayo, Robert Pattinson, Olivier Assayas

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Ayobami Adebayo, Robert Pattinson, Olivier Assayas

25/03/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Ayobami Adebayo, Robert Pattinson, Olivier Assayas

Robert Pattinson tells about working in the jungle for his new film The Lost City of Z

Robert Pattinson talks about the dangers of working in the jungle for his latest film The Lost City of Z while Olivier Assayas celebrates the talents of Pattinson’s former girlfriend Kristen Stewart in the French film director’s movie Personal Shopper.  

American super star novelist Paul Auster talks about the  tragedy he witnessed as a teenager which informed his new work ,  a long-awaited novel of more than 900 pages. 

Nigerian novelist Ayobami Adebayo has been long-listed for a major literary prize in the UK.  She explains what it means to her.

As the new live action film Beauty and the Beast hits the screens, its director Bill Condon talks about  including Disney’s first interracial kiss. 

In the studio with Nikki Bedi this week is film critic Angie Errigo, and joining in from Warsaw is Polish  film director Michał  Marczak, whose latest film has won him a director’s award at the Sundance Festival.

(Photo shows: Ayobami Adebayo (c) KC Ogundele, Robert Pattinson (c) Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, Olivier Assayas (c) Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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