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Actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her starring role as Miss World 1970

Actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her starring role as Miss World 1970 and the moment of feminist history captured in the new film Misbehaviour.

Double Booker Prize winning novelist Hilary Mantel talks about The Mirror and the Light, the final volume in her Tudor trilogy of books about Thomas Cromwell and Henry Vlll, that began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.

Playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak discusses the US deportation laws that inspired his new work The Special Relationship.

Actor George MacKay, now starring as Australia’s infamous outlaw Ned Kelly in Justin Kurzel’s film True History of the Kelly Gang, reveals how physical transformation and singing in a punk band helped create the character.

Nikki’s studio guests are cultural critic MaryAnn Johanson and Christos Tsiolkas, Australian author of The Slap, whose latest novel Damascus is an epic re-imagining of the emergence of Christianity, centred on the figure of Saul of Tarsus, who later became St Paul.

American pop sensation Billie Eilish has stories of her paparazzi encounters and we hear her Bond theme song, No Time to Die.

(Photo: Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Credit: PathΓ©/20th Century Fox)

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Wed 18 Mar 2020 00:06GMT

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  • Wed 18 Mar 2020 00:06GMT