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Front Row: Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers, Lulu Wang on Expats starring Nicole Kidman

Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers, Lulu Wang on Expats starring Nicole Kidman

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Andrew Haigh on All Of Us Strangers with Andrew Scott, Expats starring Nicole Kidman.

Andrew Haigh on his new film, All of Us Strangers, starring Andrew Scott. The life and writings of music journalist Tom Hibbert. Lulu Wang's new series, Expats, with Nicole Kidman.

Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers, is both a love story and a ghost story. Starring Andrew Scott, it explores the impact of a chance encounter in a deserted tower block, and how nostalgia draws him back to the suburban family home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years ago. 

Tom Hibbert was a popular music journalist who wrote for Smash Hits, Q and many other top magazines in the 1980s and 90s and whose irreverent style of writing would inspire the generation that followed. Miranda Sawyer and Jasper Murison-Bowie join to talk about ‘Phew, Eh Readers’, a new book that compiles some of his best articles.

Lulu Wang’s powerful new series Expats explores the lives of women in Hong Kong who are all outsiders for different reasons. It is an unsurprising theme given such female-led cast (including Nicole Kidman), as well as female-led production remains a rarity for shows of this scale and ambition. Writer and director Wang, who grew up in the US after her parents fled Beijing, joins Samira to discuss her expansive vision for it.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May

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