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Sir Ridley Scott, director of the original Alien science fiction horror film (plus Blade Runner and Gladiator) talks about his latest offering Alien: Covenant and about THAT famous chest bursting scene from the first film

Superstar American writer, stand-up comedienne and producer Amy Schumer tells us about her new film Snatched which also stars the veteran American comedy film actress Goldie Hawn.

Three top-selling writers discuss different aspects of life after hitting the best-selling list: Paula Hawkins talks about her first book after The Girl on the Train, Emma Donoghue about adapting Room for the stage and Jo Nesbo about how being forced to tell stories in front of family members as a youngster, forced his creative juices to flow.

Our representative at the 70th Cannes International Film Festival Phillip Bergson gives us the low down on which films to look out for.

Joining Nikki in discussion in this week鈥檚 programme are the Chinese writer Lijia Zhang who has just published her first novel Lotus and Zimbabwe-born cultural commentator Georgina Godwin.

(Photo shows Ridley Scott (c) Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images, Anoushka Shankar (c) Jason Merritt/Getty Images, Amy Schumer (c) Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)