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The Arts Hour: Actor Tom Hanks

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Tom Hanks

08/02/2020 GMT

Actor Tom Hanks

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Actor Tom Hanks

Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks talks about A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks talks about his role as the much loved children’s TV personality Mr Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi, Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks talks about his role as the much loved children’s TV personality Mr Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. 

Australian actress Margot Robbie tells us why she wanted to recreate her character Harley Quinn from the 2016 film Suicide Squad in her latest movie Birds of Prey.

Nigerian singer Yemi Alade, whose song Johnny has had more than a hundred million hits on YouTube, explains how her fans have shaped her musical direction.

Actor Willem Dafoe on the power of words in his new thriller The Lighthouse, with Robert Pattinson. 

Polish filmmaker and director Agnieszka Holland’s film Mr Jones, stars James Norton as Gareth Jones. He was a Welsh journalist who witnessed the Holodomor, the man-made starvation of Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, which killed millions of people. Jones was discredited and Agnieszka explains why fake news is nothing new.  

And Indian American singer and composer Kamala Sankaram on the collaboration of technology and music and dating apps that go horribly wrong. 

Joining Nikki in the studio are classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić, whose latest album is Sound of Silence, and critic and commentator Karen Krizanovich 

Photo shows Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (c) Lacey Terrell

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