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Actress Annette Bening, poet Wole Soyinka and film-maker Ana Asensio

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Nikki Bedi is joined by Spanish film-maker Ana Asensio, who produced, directed and starred in her movie Most Beautiful Island, and film critic Anil Sinanan.

Hollywood actress Annette Bening talks about waiting for years to play another Hollywood actress, femme fatale Gloria Grahame.

Nigerian poet and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka reflects on his youthful aims to change Africa through literature.

Author Celeste Ng on how her second novel includes themes of race and gender in American and is timely in the age of Trump.

Sonequa Martin-Green talks about being the first black woman to play a leading role in Star Trek and music from Malian duo Amadou and Marian and the Russian folk group Otavo Yo.

(Photo: Annette Bening (c) Neilson Barnard/Getty Images, Wole Soyinka (c) Thomas Samson/Getty Images, Sonequa Martin-Green/Getty Images)

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Mon 4 Dec 2017 23:06GMT

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