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Orlando Bloom; Liverpool Biennial; Elizabeth Knox

Orlando Bloom on his intense film Retaliation and new career choices, the delayed Liverpool Biennial gets underway, and apocalyptic new fantasy The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox.

Orlando Bloom talks to Samira Ahmed about taking on a very different kind of role in his intense and visceral film Retaliation, and the new career challenges he’s excited about.

As the delayed Liverpool Biennial gets underway – showing only online and outdoor work for the moment because of the restrictions on galleries opening – art critic and editor of The Double Negative cultural website Mike Pinnington considers how the commissioned artists have responded to the theme of ‘the body’, and how the city is preparing to re-open its doors.

Best selling New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox discusses her new novel The Absolute Book, an apocalyptic fantasy novel which explores contemporary issues including climate change through a fusion of ancient myths, other worlds and a murder mystery in a spell binding story.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Simon Richardson

Image: Retaliation (2017)
Credit: Zee Studios International

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom
Retaliation is digitally released throughout the UK on Friday 26 March 2021, certificate 18.
Image: Orlando Bloom and cast in Retaliation. Credit: Zee Studios International.

Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox
'The Absolute Book' written by is out now, published by Michael Joseph.

Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial
runs until Sunday 6 June 2021, with galleries hopefully opening, as the Coronavirus (COVID‑19) rules allow. You can also listen to : A series of five podcasts on Disease and Pandemics in a Distorted World.
Image: Teresa Solar, Osteoclast (I do not know how I came to be on board this ship, this navel of my ark), 2021. Installation view at Exchange Flags. Photography: Mark McNulty.

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