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Carey Mulligan; Colour at the National Gallery; the artistic legacy of the miners' strike 30 years on

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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As actress Carey Mulligan makes her West End debut in David Hare's 1995 drama Skylight, she discusses playing opposite Bill Nighy and how she chooses film roles. A new exhibition, Making Colour at the National Gallery in London, charts and analyses the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art, Shahidha Bari reviews. 30 years ago this week, a protest at the Orgreave coking plant turned into the most notorious confrontation of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Artist Jeremy Deller, poet Helen Mort and playwright Beth Steel discuss why the events of June 18th 1984 proved such fertile ground artistic response. And following the news that Harrison Ford has injured his ankle on the set of Star Wars, Adrian Wootton discusses how film-makers work around cast injuries. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Carey Mulligan
Interviewed Guest:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Jeremy Deller
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Mort
Interviewed Guest:
Beth Steel
Interviewed Guest:
Adrian Wootton

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