Nikki Bedi is joined by critic Katie Puckrik to discuss cultural highlights of the week:

Oscar winning British actor Riz Ahmed on his film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set in London

Hollywood star Kristen Stewart on her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water

Japanese composer Dai Fujikura talks about turning Hokusai’s famous painting, The Great Wave, into a new opera

Author Sadiqa Johnson reveals how the real history of a Black American GI in Germany inspired her latest novel

Oscar nominated Brazilian cinematographer Adolpho Veloso, tells Nikki Bedi about his filming techniques for Train Dreams

And Kirsty Sinclair Dootson explains her dual fascination with the mid twentieth century explosion in colour film coinciding with social and political changes in India.

(Photo: Adolpho Veloso. Credit: Courtesy of Adolpho Veloso)