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Carla Marie Williams, Tom Cruise, Audra McDonald

This week on The Arts Hour Tom Cruise talks his most dangerous stunts

Tom Cruise talks about his most dangerous stunts and describes how he persuaded Annabelle Wallis, his co-star in The Mummy, that she鈥檇 enjoy filming in zero gravity.

Broadway鈥檚 leading lady, Audra McDonald, explains how she channelled her own grandmother to find the right voice for Billie Holiday in her show about the jazz icon. Thomas Keneally discusses why he cut out adjectives in his new novel tackling child abuse in the Australian Catholic church.

We hear from the young British songwriter Carla Marie Williams - you may not recognise her name, but she wrote Beyonce鈥檚 Freedom.

The world鈥檚 leading tenor Jonas Kaufman claims opera is dying.

And Nikki is joined by the Kurdish poet Choman Hardi and the film writer and critic Tanul Thakur.

(Photo shows: Carla Marie Williams (c) 大象传媒, Tom Cruise (c) James McCarthy/Getty Images, Audra McDonald (c) Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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Mon 3 Jul 2017 23:06GMT

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