Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her new film The Lost Daughter, an adaptation of the novel by Elena Ferrante. Gyllenhaal has written the film and it is her directorial debut, which stars Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Ed Harris.

Samira talks to American artist Kehinde Wiley, best known for his portraits that render people of colour in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings, about his new exhibition at the National Gallery in London. The show, titled The Prelude, sees Wiley shifting his focus from Grand Manner portraiture to landscape painting.

And with Christmas approaching fast, writers Kit de Waal and Michael Rosen are on hand to suggest some last-minute book ideas:

Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne
The Correct Order of Biscuits: And Other Meticulously Assembled Lists of Extremely Valuable Nonsense by Adam Sharp
When Shadows Fall by Sita Brahmachari
The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Dr Gavin Francis
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries
Fallen Idols by Alex von Tunzelmann


Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jerome Weatherald