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Thai director Pat Boonnitipat

Nikki is joined by the cultural critic Guy Lodge, and talks to the Thai director Pat Boonnitipat about his box office barnstormer 'How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies'.

Welcome to the first Arts Hour of 2025! Nikki Bedi is joined by cultural critic Karen Krizanovich.
Oscar winning Australian actor Cate Blanchett talks about the surreal film Rumours, in which she plays a hair-sprayed German Chancellor... alongside a giant brain!
British actor Daniel Craig and Italian director Luca Guadagnino on their film Queer....definitely a change from James Bond!
Kelsey Mann, the Director of Inside Out 2...the highest grossing animated film ever...talks about its audience appeal.
And the extraordinary Indian actor Tabu, currently starring in the series Dune Prophecy, discusses the changing nature of Sci-Fi films and her decades-long, impressive career.
Also on the show, New Zealand actor and producer Robyn Malcolm chats about feeling liberated on screen in her outstanding TV series After the Party.
There's music from the South African group, The Joy.
And Nikki talks to the Thai director Pat Boonnitipat about his heart-warming box office barnstormer; the Oscar-shortlisted How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.

Producer Lucy Collingwood

(Photo: Usha Seamkhum and Pat Boonnitipat at a screening of "How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies", 20 November 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Dan Steinberg / Shelter PR via Getty Images)

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