Artists at Work

Tuyet Vah Huynh meets two film-makers in Hanoi, Nguyen Duy Anh and Bui Kim Quy . Tuyet explains how cinema is booming in Vietnam. In 2025, more than 70 million cinema tickets were sold, and Vietnamese films took more than sixty per cent of the domestic box office. And yet, for audiences in Britain and much of the world, Vietnamese cinema can still feel largely undiscovered. Vietnam has been making films for generations, but outside the country, the image of Vietnam on screen has often been shaped by Hollywood, films about Vietnam, rather than films made by Vietnamese film.

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

Neil McCarthy meets Japanese artist Yuko Mohri, as she prepares for a major exhibition. Her sculptures often fuse ordinary objects, such as umbrellas, feather dusters and apples, with unstable forces such as air and water. The results are works of kinetic art that are constantly changing and evolving, as Neil discovers.

Nikki Bedi speaks to the Turkish-born author about her new novel In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Using the voices of different women, Shafak tells the story of 19th century French writer Gustave Flaubert, whose famous book Madame Bovary forever shaped modern fiction.
We hear from New Zealand's Taika Waititi about Klara and the Sun, his new film based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Jamaican author Marlon James discusses The Disappearers, his new Booker-shortlisted story about 1980s homophobia.
French director Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, his new biopic of outsider Danish architect Otto von Spreckelsen
And as a new adaptation of Sense & Sensibility hits the cinemas, British star Daisy Edgar Jones and Australian screenwriter Diana Reid make the case for Jane Austen's enduring relevance and wit.
Joining to give his take on the week's cultural highlights is Guy Lodge, chief film critic at Variety magazine.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Another chance to go behind the scenes with director Joachim Trier as he makes the follow-up to his international hit The Worst Person In The World. Stephen Hughes got exclusive access to the set of Sentimental Value, following the film from pre to post production. In a series of candid interviews, the writer-director reveals the anxiety he feels every time he has to make a movie, and how he is helped by his loyal team: screenwriter Eskil Vogt and producers Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Mone Mikkelsen and Lars Thomas Skare.