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Front Row

Award Winners of 2016

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

We speak to the big award winners from the past year.

Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his satirical novel The Sellout; Denise Gough was on the point of giving up acting when she was offered the role that would win her an Olivier; Sonia Friedman, who won Best Producer at the Stage Awards, brought Harry Potter to the stage; Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar after being nominated 5 times; Helen Marten won not only the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture but the Turner Prize and split the winnings; 17 year old Sheku Kanneh-Mason won the BBC's Young Musician of the Year playing Shostakovich.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hannah Robins. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Producer:
Hannah Robins
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Beatty
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Marten
Interviewed Guest:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Interviewed Guest:
Denise Gough
Interviewed Guest:
Sonia Friedman
Interviewed Guest:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason

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