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This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi, American director Todd Haynes discusses his new movie Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo as the real life lawyer in Ohio, who spent decades fighting a legal battle with a chemical corporation.

British actor and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge reveals her original idea for Fleabag, the Â鶹Éç sitcom that became the first British show to win best comedy series at the latest Emmy awards… and describes the amusing sound effects used by stuntmen on the set of new Bond movie, No Time To Die.

The legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor reveals his approach to reinterpreting American standards. Iranian artist Shirin Neshat talks about her quest to understand American identity by asking about the dreams of New Mexico residents. French actor, Fanny Ardant, considers the boldness that comes with age. And the duo described as Banjo Royalty, Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck, tell us how the story of refugees and a yodelling shepherd inspired a new song.

Nikki’s studio guests are film maker and cultural commentator Catherine Bray and Polish futurist artist Oskar Krajewski, whose immersive exhibition, Mars and Beyond, brings together forty artists to explore global warming, waste and population explosion, alongside the revival of the space race and what that might mean for generations to come.

Photo: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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