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Author of powerful new play Cuttin' It, Charlene James tells us about giving FGM a face, not treading on eggshells and making theatre that makes a difference
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Mustang deservedly picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film last year. We talked to the director about her powerful story of sisterhood
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We talk to director Joachim Trier about families and an image-saturated society
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Playwright Ali McDowall tells us about setting a play on space, his meticulous writing process and finding his heroine
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We spoke to the legendary director Peter Greenaway about his new film Eisenstein in Guanajuato
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We spoke to director Gareth Bryn, rising star of Welsh cinema, about his feature debut The Passing
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We talked to Pablo Larraín, director of 2015 Berlinale Grand Jury Prize winner The Club
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Ahead of her role in the Almeida's Uncle Vanya, Vanessa Kirby tell us why no amount of fame or glamour will tempt her away from the stage
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We talked to director Álvaro Longoria about his experiences in North Korea and what the future holds for the country
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Rising star director Michael Longhurst tells us about switching from bold new writing to traditional Shakespeare
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Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson talks to Culture Whisper about chasing sheep down hillsides, Icelandic black humour and his new film Rams
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We chatted to Saffron Burrows about how the classical world compares to the theatrical, and how streaming is changing the way we view TV
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We chat to Room director Lenny Abrahamson about defying genre, and protecting his child actor from the novel's grislier aspects
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Ahead of his Roundhouse performance, we caught up with Spacebomb Records impresario and soul sensation Matthew E. White
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Culture Whisper talks to actress Tuppence Middleton, star of new BBC shows Dickensian and War and Peace
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We speak to director David Sington about new film The Fear of 13 and why he chose to tell his story from the perspective of a convicted murderer
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We chat to legendary aerial photographer and documentary filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand about his new film, Human. Watch it online here
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Ariane Labed talks to us about working with her husband Yorgos Lanthimos on The Lobster, and why she thinks there's no place for feminism in the film industry.
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We talked to Nika Roza Danilova (AKA Zola Jesus) ahead of her performance at Islington Assembly Hall
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Ahead of new play Eventide, Barney Norris tells us about keeping it local, writing a novel, and finding inspiration hanging out in the pub
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We talk to Romola Garai, star of the Young Vic's 'Measure for Measure' about working on Suffragette, living in a covent and sexist directors
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Tom Dixon, Selfridges' Multiplex designer, tells Ella Cory-Wright about copper, hangovers and not selling out
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Ahead of the world premiere of the Royal Court's Lela & Co., playwright Cordelia Lynn tells us about stories, muddling the monologue form and juggling a day job
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Culture Whisper chats to Ingmar Bergman's legendary muse Liv Ullmann about new film Miss Julie, starring Jessica Chastain & Colin Farrell
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MACHINE-A's Stavros Karelis and curator Niamh White talk about future projects, their love of SHOWstudio and their favourite London cultural hang-outs.
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We talk to director Marielle Heller about her new film Diary of a Teenage Girl, and why Hollywood needs more realistic young role-models.
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SERIES: We ask the best curators in the world what it takes to make it in the cutthroat contemporary art scene
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We chat to actor Jeremy Irvine about shooting in extreme temperatures and why he'll never forgive Jamie Dornan.
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Between playing Isabella in Measure for Measure, Mariah Gale takes a break from Shakespeare to talk gutsy heroines, celebrity Hamlets and happy endings.
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Superstar British artist Marc Quinn talks blood heads, Kate Moss and controversy ahead of his 2015 White Cube exhibition
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What it was really like to be a punk? Viv Albertine chats to Ella Cory-Wright about her bestselling memoir, being scared of Vivienne Westwood and why punk could never happen again.
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We talk to director Asif Kapadia (Senna) about revisiting the tragedy, the girl behind the tabloids, and the family's reaction to new Amy Winehouse documentary.