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American writer Lionel Shriver’s new book The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047 follows three generations of a wealthy family as a financial crisis hits America. She discusses the economic conflict the novel predicts and also whether Donald Trump would ever be believable as a fictional character.

Nigerian musician King Sunny Ade has turned 70. He looks back on a career in which record labels tried to turn him into the African Bob Marley and sets the record straight about recent reports of his death.

David Bintley is a British former ballet dancer who is now Artistic Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. He explains why he devoted an entire year to ballets inspired by Shakespeare’s plays.

Pianist Benjamim Taubkin fuses contemporary Jazz and Afro-Brazilian influences with the group Clareira. He tells us why it is that rural communities are most successful in keeping traditional music alive.

Actor Jonah Hill talks us through the incredible true story behind his new movie War Dogs about three young men from Florida who become international arms dealers. He also tells us why he doesn’t read his reviews and the moment when he realised he had finally ‘made it’.

American actress Bryce Dallas Howard reveals how being film director Ron Howard’s daughter gave her a childhood full of celebrity house guests.

iLe is a Puerto Rican singer who reinterprets the traditional music of her country. We meet her in San Juan and ask her why she is in love with the salsa and bomba music her grandparents would listen to.

Greek crime writer Petros Markaris discusses writing novels that chart his country’s recent financial crisis and how the killers in his stories have become unlikely heroes for his readers.

And we talk to legendary jazz composer Quincy Jones about how he broke into the movie industry with soundtracks to In Cold Blood and In The Heat Of The Night. He also describes how his humility helps him to work well with people.

(Photo shows: Jonah Hill (c) Michael Loccisano/Getty Images, Lionel Shriver (c) Ö÷²¥´óÐã, Quincy Jones (c) Jerod Harris/Getty Images for PTTOW!)