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Booker Prize writing, and deaf DJ-ing with Nikki Bedi on The Arts Hour this week. And at autumn film season, we consider some of the prestige movie releases and premières. From Beasts of No Nation, we meet the cast and crew of a new drama about African child-soldiers.

We discover new films about disintegrating families from Sweden, Japan and France with critic Tara Judah. Sarah Gavron, director of womens’ vote film Suffragette argues that violent protest helped create social change. And Thelma and Louise actress Geena Davis addresses how to get more women into films.

The Jamaican winner of the Booker Prize, Marlon James, discusses his book about the attempted assassination of reggae legend Bob Marley in the 1970s: A Brief History of Seven Killings. We also got deaf DJ Robbie Wilde who works via vibration and muscle memory. We take a trip to Czech Republic to visit the small-town world centre of the flourishing vinyl record manufacturing industry. Finally African-American tenor Noah Stewart on his new role in Carmen and how to deal with love-interest stage singers who suffer from bad breath.

(Photo: Marlon James (c) Getty Images, Geena Davis (c) Getty Images, Carey Mulligan (c) Pathe)