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Bryan Ferry; The Fall; Peder Balke; Revolutionary Theatre

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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Bryan Ferry talks to Kirsty Lang about his 14th solo album, Avonmore. Professor Chris Rapley, one of the UK's leading climate scientists, has written his first play, 2071, which focuses on climate change, and Molly Davies has drawn on her years working as a teaching assistant to write God Bless the Child in which a group of eight-year-olds rebel against the school system. They discuss how they turned their professional experiences into theatre. Crime writer Stella Duffy reviews BBC crime drama The Fall, which stars Gillian Anderson as a detective on the hunt for a killer in Belfast, and Richard Cork discusses a new exhibition of work by Peder Balke, a Norwegian artist who was one of the pioneers of modernist Scandinavian painting.

Producer Olivia Skinner. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Bryan Ferry
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Interviewed Guest:
Stella Duffy
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Rapley
Interviewed Guest:
Molly Davies

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