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Eddie Redmayne, Gurinder Chadha, Michael Keaton

Eddie Redmayne on playing Stephen Hawking, Gurinder Chadha on taking her film Bend it Like Beckham to the stage and we hear from Michael Keaton on new movie Birdman.

This week on The Arts Hour, actor Eddie Redmayne discusses playing physicist & cosmologist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

We learn about the Hungry Generation - angry young poets in 1960s Calcutta, whose antics inspired American Beat writer Allen Ginsberg.

The Seattle duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis explain how they're changing hip hop. British Asian film director Gurinder Chadha tells us why she's so excited to transfer her film Bend It Like Beckham to the stage as a musical.

We discover the lengths to which people will go to steal a violin, well not just any violin, but the Lipinski Stradivarius. Hollywood actor Michael Keaton distances himself from the character he's playing in the new movie Birdman. And we also pay tribute to one of Italy's most famous singer-songwriters Pino Daniele.

(Photo: Eddie Mayne (c) Jason Merritt/Getty, Gurinder Chadha (c) Rommel Demano/Getty, Michael Keaton (c) Jason Merritt/Getty)

50 minutes

Last on

Mon 12 Jan 2015 09:05GMT

Music and featured items

  • Eddie Redmayne

    Eddie Redmayne discusses his new film, The Theory Of Everything.

    Duration: 10:30

  • India's Beats: The Hungry Generation

    50 years after Allen Ginsberg discovered India's so-called Hungry Generation we go back

    Duration: 05:59

  • Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

    DJ Semtex travels to meet the team behind one of the biggest albums of the last year

    Duration: 06:29

  • Gurinder Chadha

    The writer and director transforms Bend in Like Beckham into a new West End musical

    Duration: 07:21

  • Pino Daniele

    Tribute to Italian singer songwriter who died at the beginning of January

    Duration: 05:01

  • The Lipinski

    The turbulent history of the Lipinski Stradavarius

    Duration: 06:34

  • Michael Keaton

    The US actor talks about his latest film, Birdman

    Duration: 07:32

  • J贸hann J贸hannsson

    Soundtrack from The Theory of Everything

  • Ananda Shankar

    Streets of Calcutta

  • Fences

    Fences (feat. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)

  • Bina Mistry

    Hot Hot Hot

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

  • Backyard Dog

    Baddest Roughest

  • Melanie C

    Independence Day

  • Pino Daniele

    Pigro

  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

    Same Love

Broadcasts

  • Sat 10 Jan 2015 12:05GMT
  • Mon 12 Jan 2015 09:05GMT