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Freeheld review, Anna Hope, Jack Garratt, Unexpected Eisenstein

Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld, novelist Anna Hope on her new book, and singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt.

Stella Duffy reviews Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld, based on the true story of lesbian police detective's struggle to have her pension transferred to her domestic partner after she is diagnosed with cancer.

Novelist Anna Hope discusses her new book, The Ballroom, a love story set in an asylum in Yorkshire in 1911 and set against a backdrop of changing attitudes towards poverty and mental illness.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt on his dΓ©but album, Phase.

Film historian Ian Christie shows Samira around his new exhibition of previously unseen drawings by pioneering Soviet film maker Sergei Eisenstein.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jack Soper.

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Wed 17 Feb 2016 19:15
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  • Freeheld reviewed by Stella Duffy

    Duration: 04:42

  • Anna Hope

    Duration: 09:16

  • Jack Garratt

    Duration: 07:11

  • Unexpected Eisenstein

    Duration: 05:56

Freeheld

Freeheld
Freeheld is in cinemas from Friday 19 February, certificate 12A.

Jack Garratt

Jack Garratt

is released on Friday 19 February.

Image: Dan Harris

Anna Hope

Anna Hope

by Anna Hope is published by Penguin Random House.

Main image: Jonathan Greet

Unexpected Eisenstein

Unexpected Eisenstein

Unexpected Eisenstein is running at until 30 April 2016.

Further information is available at the

Image: Costume designs for Mazzini Dunn, Boss Arthur Mangan and Randall Utterwood in Hearthbreak House.

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Presenter Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest Stella Duffy
Interviewed Guest Anna Hope
Interviewed Guest Jack Garratt
Interviewed Guest Ian Christie
Producer Jack Soper

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  • Wed 17 Feb 2016 19:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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