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The Arts Hour: Director Barry Jenkins

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Director Barry Jenkins

22/05/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Director Barry Jenkins

Oscar winning director Barry Jenkins talks about his new series The Underground Railroad

Oscar winning screenwriter and director Barry Jenkins talks about his powerful new series The Underground Railroad

This week Nikki Bedi is joined by British Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite talking about her latest work The Baby is Mine, and broadcaster and film critic Anil Sinanan. 

We’ll hear from Oscar winning screenwriter and director Barry Jenkins about his powerful new series The Underground Railroad

The British filmmaker Sam Taylor Johnson talks about her new Sci Fi TV series Solos, which stars Oscar winners Morgan Freedman, Helen Mirren and Anne Hathaway 

Actress Sigourney Weaver tells us about her new film My New York Year, playing J D Salinger’s literary agent. 

There’s music from British singer songwriter Birdy who reveals how her fourth album Young Heart was born out of heartbreak.  

Bollywood star Salman Khan talks about his determined work ethic. 
 
And the American musician St Vincent on where she gets her inspiration.


(Photo: Director Barry Jenkins. Credit: Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Images)

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