Show Notes
Nikki Bedi speaks to superstar Irish-Indian poet and New York Times-Bestselling author Nikita Gill about her latest “novel in verse Styx: The River” Plus critic Kohinoor Sahota discusses this week’s cultural highlights: Oscar-winners Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison on their new film, The Social Reckoning “Kinetic artist” Liliane Lijn on growing up in a multi-lingual household and being given Salvador Dali's moustache! South African actor John Kani (King T’Chaka in Black Panther) on playing Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest And fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe alum Florence Pugh on playing "fallen woman" Cathy Ames in the epic new Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
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