Anne-Marie Duff, M John Harrison, Bayreuth 150th anniversary

Bad Sisters actress Anne-Marie Duff talks to Samira about her latest role as Julie in Helen Edmundson’s play in Some Woman on stage at the National Theatre in London.

In the next of our interviews with this year's Booker Prize shortlisted authors, visionary novelist and father of "New Weird" fiction M John Harrison discusses his disorientating dystopia, The End of Everything.

And in the year of the Bayreuth opera festival's 150th anniversary, Samira discusses its history and significance with Genevieve Robyn Arkle, BBC / AHRC new generation thinker and lecturer in music history at King’s College London and Mark Berry, professor music and intellectual history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Producer: Eliane Glaser