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Front Row

Cat Stevens, Northern Soul, William Morris, Ken Burns

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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Yusuf Islam, also known as Cat Stevens, talks to Samira Ahmed about his new album Tell 'Em I'm Gone, his first for five years. Miranda Sawyer reviews a new film Northern Soul, about the music and dance phenomenon from the late '60s and early '70s. William Morris is the focus of a new exhibition Anarchy & Beauty at the National Portrait Gallery. The show's curator Fiona MacCarthy reveals there's a great deal more to him than wallpaper and furniture design. And the multi-award-winning American TV documentary-maker Ken Burns - he of the 'Ken Burns Effect' - looks back over a career in which he has covered The Civil War, the history of Jazz and the Great Depression, and discusses his latest 14-hour series The Roosevelts: an Intimate History.

Producer Jerome Weatherald. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Yusuf Islam
Interviewed Guest:
Miranda Sawyer
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona MacCarthy
Interviewed Guest:
Ken Burns

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