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C\xe9line Sciamma\u2019s last film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, won awards worldwide after its release in 2019. Now the French filmmaker is back with Petite Maman \u2013 a meditative film set in the French countryside in which an eight year old girl, while helping her parents clear her mother\u2019s family home, meets a mysterious girl of the same age in the woods.

Less than a year since the UK emerged from lockdown, Sarah Moss has captured the experience of the pandemic in her new novel. The Fell follows a mother and son self-isolating and the fall-out when being confined to the house becomes too much to bear.

Many sea shanties, it turns out, have their roots in African-American work songs. Singers, dancers and academics Angeline Morrison and Fay Hield discuss diversity in the folk arts and how their new projects will widen this.

PRESENTER: Tom Sutcliffe\nPRODUCER: Olivia Skinner

PHOTO: C\xe9line Sciamma CREDIT: Claire Mathon