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American film director Spike Lee tells The Arts Hour this week about his new film BlacKkKlansman, a humorous film about a black policeman who infiltrates the white extremist group the Ku Klux Klan.

We also hear from Emma Thompson, talking about her new film The Children Act and Denzel Washington on being an actor, then director and back to actor for The Equalizer 2.

Chloe Grace Moretz explains her very personal reasons behind taking on the role of a gay youngster at so called 'gay conversion' camp in 1970s America in The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

Pakistani award-winning musician Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi left his family of tribal Pathaans when he was only 18 to follow his dream of making music. We hear why it鈥檚 forbidden in the family and how it took them many years before they could talk to him again.

And Thomas Mapfumo (aka 'The Lion of Zimbabwe') returns to Harare after an exile of 14 years while the Mugabe regime was in office. We hear about his anti-establishment lyrics and his homecoming in the new Zimbabwe.

The saxophonist YolanDa Brown and film critic Anton Bitel join Nikki Bedi in The Arts Hour studio this week to discuss the interviews.

Photo shows Spike Lee (c) John Parra