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The Arts Hour: Film Star Charlize Theron on Atomic Blonde and actor John Boyega on Detroit

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Charlize Theron, John Boyega, Selina Siak Chin Yoke

02/09/2017 GMT

Film Star Charlize Theron on Atomic Blonde and actor John Boyega on Detroit

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Film Star Charlize Theron on Atomic Blonde and actor John Boyega on Detroit

Actress Charlize Theron on being a 40-year-old action heroine

Actress Charlize Theron on being a 40-year-old action heroine. Plus, director Kathryn Bigelow and actor John Boyega discuss making the film Detroit.

Nikki Bedi’s studio guests this week are author Selina Siak Chin Yoke and film critic Agnes Poirier. 

Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow discusses her powerful new movie Detroit and its star John Boyega defends Bigelow from the charge that as a white woman she should not be telling this story.  

British Malaysian writer Selina Siak Chin Yoke explains why she’s turned from investment banking and physics to novel writing. 

Hollywood star Charlize Theron talks about finding the action hero inside her aged forty. 

Authors Preti Taneja and Mohammed Hanif examine the effect of Partition on literature. 

Adam Driver talks about his one armed role in the new Stephen Soderbergh movie Logan Lucky.

And there’s a chance to hear what Shakespeare sounds like translated into Pidgin.

(Photo: Charlize Theron (c) Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images,  John Boyega (c) Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images,  Selina Siak Chin Yoke (c) AM London)

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