<p>Actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's debut feature Eleanor the Great, in which a woman in her 90s moves back from Florida to Manhattan and forms a friendship with a young journalism student - the film explores themes of grief, the Holocaust, truth and lies. </p><p>Jenny Colgan pays tribute to her fellow bestselling novelist Sophie Kinsella, whose death was announced today. </p><p>From the daring heist on the Louvre in Paris in October to the theft of Matisse artworks from Brazil's second-largest library just this week, we discuss 2025's spate of museum heists with investigative journalist Riah Pryor and with Sunna Altnoder of UNESCO, who have recently opened a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects.</p><p>Artist Michael Fullerton discusses the symbolism in his portraits of asylum seekers, painted during his time working in the kitchen of a hotel in Carlisle, and which are on display at Edinburgh's City Art Centre until March.</p><p>Presenter: Kirsty Wark Producer: Mark Crossan</p>

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96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great

DEC 10, 202542 MIN
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96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great

DEC 10, 202542 MIN

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<p>Actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's debut feature Eleanor the Great, in which a woman in her 90s moves back from Florida to Manhattan and forms a friendship with a young journalism student - the film explores themes of grief, the Holocaust, truth and lies. </p><p>Jenny Colgan pays tribute to her fellow bestselling novelist Sophie Kinsella, whose death was announced today. </p><p>From the daring heist on the Louvre in Paris in October to the theft of Matisse artworks from Brazil's second-largest library just this week, we discuss 2025's spate of museum heists with investigative journalist Riah Pryor and with Sunna Altnoder of UNESCO, who have recently opened a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects.</p><p>Artist Michael Fullerton discusses the symbolism in his portraits of asylum seekers, painted during his time working in the kitchen of a hotel in Carlisle, and which are on display at Edinburgh's City Art Centre until March.</p><p>Presenter: Kirsty Wark Producer: Mark Crossan</p>