Director of Crawl Alexandre Aja
Nikki Bedi is joined by playwright Tanika Gupta and film critic Rich Cline to discuss this week鈥檚 cultural highlights
Nikki Bedi is joined by playwright Tanika Gupta and film critic Rich Cline to discuss this week鈥檚 cultural highlights.
Director Alexandre Aja describes his horror thriller, Crawl, featuring a hurricane, floods and rampaging alligators.
Irish author Edna O鈥橞rien talks about travelling to Nigeria to research her new book Girl and meeting some of the girls who were abducted by Boko Haram.
We travel to Jamaica and find out why you need dance moves to make your track go viral.
Mexican director Issa Lopez tells us about combining real violence and horror with fantasy in her film Tigers Are Not Afraid, which is the story of a gang of orphaned children trying to escape from the drug cartels.
Playwright Tanika Gupta explains why her adaptation of Ibsen鈥檚 play, A Doll鈥檚 House, transposes the action to an Indian colonial setting. The play is on show at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith from 6 September.
Author George RR Martin, whose novel series inspired the TV series Game of Thrones, discusses his new book Fire and Blood.
Comedian Daliso Chaponda rounds up the best international comedy at this year鈥檚 Edinburgh Fringe festival.
(Photo: Alexandre Aja Credit: Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)
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