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Alex Wheatle, Miranda July, Football club appoints Artistic Director, London Film Festival roundup

Alex Wheatle's new novel, Miranda July film Kajillionaire, Football club appoints Artistic Director, London Film Festival roundup and the career of Nobel 2020 Winner Louise Gluck

Alex Wheatle discusses his new novel Cane Warriors, based on the true story of a group of slaves in Jamaica who, in 1760, rose up against their white British slavemasters in a fight for the freedom of all enslaved people in the nearby plantations.

As Forest Green Rovers become the UK's first football club to appoint an Artistic Director, Robert Del Naja, founding member of Massive Attack, explains his artistic plans for the club.

Amanny Mohamed considers how the Covid pandemic has affected this week's London Film Festival and chooses her stand-out films.

Miranda July tells us about her latest film Kajillionaire, a comedy starring a family of very petty criminals scraping a living who decide to involve an outsider in a scam.

The American poet Louise Gl眉ck is the winner of this year鈥檚 Nobel Prize in Literature. While not exactly a recluse, Louise Gl眉ck rarely gives interviews, so we hear from John Mcauliffe of Carcanet Press, Gl眉ck鈥檚 British publisher for a quarter of a century, to tell us about the poet and her work.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser
Studio Manager: Donald McDonald

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42 minutes

Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle's book Cane Warriors聽is out now

Main image: Alex Wheatle

Nobel Prize for Literature

winner 2020 is US poet, Louise聽Gl眉ck

Saint Maud

Saint Maud is in selected cinemas, cert 15

Miranda July

Kajillionaire is in selected cinemas, cert 12 A

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  • Fri 9 Oct 2020 19:00

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