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Henry Cavill, Ottessa Moshfegh, Meera Syal

Henry Cavill and Amy Adams on Batman v Superman; plus authors, Meera Syal on her novel The House of Hidden Mothers; and Ottessa Moshfegh on her debut, Eileen.

Actors Henry Cavill and Amy Adams discuss playing Clark Kent and Lois Lane in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice; comedian and writer Meera Syal explains why she鈥檚 written about surrogacy for her new novel The House of Hidden Mothers; and Ethan Hawke tells us about playing jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in the biopic Born To Be Blue.
There鈥檚 music from the Indian composer R.D. Burman, who wrote scores to over 300 movies between the 1960s and his death in 1994; the Spanish seven-piece El Naan, who explore the common ground between Arabic, Celtic, and Jewish roots music in the Iberian Peninsula; and we discover how Ivorian artists are responding to Al Qaeda attacks on their own soil through the power of song.
Plus American novelist Ottessa Moshfegh on her new thriller, Eileen, which has already been optioned to become a film; why Kenyan writers are promoting the tradition of oral story-telling; and Gomeroi poet Alison Whittaker on her debut collection which explores Aboriginality, sexuality, and life in a rural town.

(Picture: Henry Cavill, Ottessa Moshfegh and Meera Syal
Henry Cavill picture credit: Warner Bros)

50 minutes

Last on

Tue 5 Apr 2016 01:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Mon 4 Apr 2016 08:06GMT
  • Tue 5 Apr 2016 01:06GMT