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Artists at Work

How creatives write, perform and make art, design and music. The home of arts and culture from BBC World Service. In The Studio follows the world’s leading creative figures while they work. Nikki Bedi hosts The Arts Hour, with news of the latest releases from around the world, and in World Book Club Harriett Gilbert puts your questions and comments to best-selling authors. In the Studio episodes are released on Tuesdays, The Arts Hour with you on Fridays and World Book Club drops on the first Saturday of each month.

Episodes

Xiaolu Guo, a Chinese-born British author, discusses her novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, which explores the cultural and linguistic challenges faced by a young Chinese woman, Z, in London. The conversation examines the role of language learning in developing intimacy, highlighting how Z's improv...