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Yerma starring Billie Piper, Film director Todd Solondz, Russian pianist Kirill Gerstein, Slam poetry in Brazil

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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Billie Piper stars in Simon Stone's radical reworking of Lorca's Yerma, a play about a woman's increasingly desperate desire to conceive. Sarah Hemming reviews.

Provocative film director Todd Solondz on his dark comedy Wiener-Dog, which comprises four short stories linked together by the same dashchund, starring Greta Gerwig and Danny DeVito.

As the original version of Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto No.1 gets its UK premiere at the BBC Proms, Russian pianist Kirill Gerstein explains why this dramatically different score has remained hidden for so long.

As the Olympics begin, we complete our series of interviews with Brazilian artists with a look at the slam poetry scene in Brazil.

Presenter: Clemency Burton-Hill
Producer: Ella-mai Robey. Show less

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Hemming
Interviewed Guest:
Todd Solondz
Interviewed Guest:
Kirill Gerstein

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