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The story of the slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman has finally made it to the big screen where she is played by Cynthia Erivo. Gaylene Gould reviews.

After France\u2019s President Macron was reportedly \u201cshaken by the accuracy\u201d of new French film Les Mis\xe9rables, depicting life today in the deprived outer suburbs of Paris, French critic Agn\xe8s Poirier joins us to discuss modern attitudes toward social realist cinema in the UK, France and elsewhere.

The Christmas sales are the most important time in the publishing industry as sees a number of companies go from the red into the black. As they continue their reflections on how the book industry operates, literary agent Clare Alexander and publisher John Mitchinson consider the nature of risk, and whether it pays to be one of the big conglomerates or a small independent outfit.

And Jonathan Moberly explains how the Weavers Community Action Group commissioned street artists \u2014 calling themselves the Columbia Road Cartel \u2014 to combat drug dealing in their local area.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang\nProducer: Hilary Dunn