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Front Row: Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps

Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps

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Jon Bon JovI, Clare Pollard and Marina Warner, The Dead Don't Hurt

Jon Bon Jovi on his band's new album, Forever, Clare Pollard and Marina Warner on the origins of fairytales, western The Dead Don't Hurt stars Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps

Jon Bon Jovi talks about his band’s new album Forever and their new documentary Thank You, Goodnight on Disney+ which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary in rock and roll this year.

Clare Pollard’s new book The Modern Fairies is set in 17th century France, where stories of trapped princesses and enchanted beasts are performed at the home of Madame Marie D'Aulnoy, who invented the term “conte de fée” or fairytale. Samira talks to Clare and and cultural historian Marina Warner about the importance of pioneers such as D'Aulnoy and Charles Perrault, who brought many of these stories to subversive salons long before the Brothers Grimm.

Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps star in the new western The Dead Don’t Hurt, in which they play an immigrant couple trying to build a new life in Nevada as the American Civil War begins. This is his second film as writer and director.

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