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The Arts Hour: Actor and producer Jessica Chastain

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Actor and producer Jessica Chastain

12/02/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Actor and producer Jessica Chastain

Jessica Chastain on her new film The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Nikki Bedi hears from Jessica Chastain, Uma Thurman, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Víkingur Ólafsson, Salomé Jashi, Arka Das, Bina Bhattacharya, Mayra Andrade and Kohinoor Sahota.

Oscar-nominated Jessica Chastain talks about playing Christian televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in her latest film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
 
One of Barack Obama’s favourite writers, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, discusses America’s hidden history and her book, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.
 
Pulp Fiction actor Uma Thurman talks about her role in new streaming series, Suspicion.

The celebrated Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson reflects on his life in music.

Australian screen writers Arka Das and Bina Bhattacharya talk about their new movie, Here Out West.

Georgian filmmaker Salomé Jashi tells Nikki about her new documentary Taming the Garden. And Salomé and the writer and journalist, Kohinoor Sahota, discuss their cultural highlights of the past week.

Plus there’s music from the award-winning Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade.

Presenter: Nikki Bedi
Producer: Paul Waters

(Photo: Jessica Chastain. Credit: Tiziana Fabi AFP via Getty Images)

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