Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 8:14 p.m.

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Hugh Jackman talks to Samira Ahmed about his role in Florian Zeller's new film The Son, in which he plays a father struggling with his child\\u2019s mental health issues.

Kevin Jared Hosein, who won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018, talks about his first novel for adults. Hungry Ghosts tells the stories of the marginalised Hindu people of Trinidad, focusing on a family who, close by a luxurious estate, live in poverty in a \\u2018barrack\\u2019, in the early 1940s.

Philip Oltermann, the Guardian\\u2019s Berlin bureau chief tells us why, despite it winning Best Film at the BAFTAs last night, critics in Germany are not showering praise on Netflix\\u2019s German-language film, All Quiet on the Western Front.

And in the light of funding cuts and plans for English National Opera to be moved out of London, the former head of Opera Europa Nicholas Payne and English Touring Opera\\u2019s chief Robin Norton-Hale discuss what a strategy for opera in the UK could look like.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed\\nProducer: Paul Waters

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