BBC World Service - The Arts Hour

The Arts Hour with Simon McBurney

Simon McBurney explores how listening to culture can help us imagine where we go now.

Nikki Bedi talks to singer, broadcaster, author and poetry-lover Cerys Matthews

Actor Daniel Kaluuya on his latest role in the film Judas and The Black Messiah

We meet some of the most exciting new filmmakers from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival

New Zealand actor Sam Neill on playing an Australian sheep farmer in his latest film Rams

Bestselling American author Angie Thomas joins us from Jackson, Mississippi

Author and poet Ben Okri discusses his latest poetry collection A Fire in My Head

British actress Vanessa Kirby on her hardest role yet in the film Pieces of a Woman

Actor Juliette Binoche on her new 1960s-based film How to be a Good Wife

Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis tells us about her role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom