World Service

In a career-spanning interview, Nikki Bedi speaks to the iconic Indian singer Asha Puthli about meeting Salvador Dali, being "rediscovered" by rapper 50 Cent and performing into her eighties. Plus, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh discusses this week’s cultural highlights: American screenwriter, filmmaker and provocateur Quentin Tarantino on his first stage play. Tenzing is biopic about the first person to conquer of Mount Everest, alongside Edmund Hillary. We hear from Australian director Jennifer Peedom and Tibetan star Genden Phuntsok Oscar-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski discuses Fatherland, his new film about German writer Thomas Mann British actor Naomi Ackie on her role in the body horror movie, Clayface, the latest addition to the DC Cinematic Universe And we hear from M John Harrison, who has just won this year’s Booker Prize for fiction with his dystopian novel, The End of Everything. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham Photo Credit: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images