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The Arts Hour: Arundhati Roy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

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Arundhati Roy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

08/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Arundhati Roy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Jake Gyllenhaal on recreating the experience of astronauts on an international space station for his latest film Life.  Author and activist Arundhati Roy discusses how her struggles with a teacher in childhood turned her into a writer

Icelandic crime writer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir explains the appeal of the flawed detective in Nordic countries.  Film-maker Cristian Mungiu on why film should imitate reality and we hear why reggae has a huge following in Poland 

Joining Nikki in discussion are the British Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie and Indian film critic Rahul Desai in Mumbai.

Photo shows: Arundhati Roy (c) BBC, Jake Gyllenhaal (c) Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (c) Sigurjon Ragnar

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