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Angels in America, Mindhorn, Storytelling in Greek myths

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Mindhorn is the new film about a faded TV star who reprises his role as an Isle of Man sleuth who has a robotic eye, and can see the truth. Julian Barratt (Mighy Boosh) and Simon Farnaby (Horrible Histories) co-wrote and co-star and talk to Kirsty about poking fun at actorly behaviour, and how the film parodies Bergerac and the Sixty Million Dollar Man.

Tony Kushner on his epic play Angels in America, which he wrote and set during the Aids crisis in America in the 1980s, and which is being revived in a new production at the National Theatre, starring Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough and Nathan Lane.

Madeline Miller, the Orange Prize winning author of The Song of Achilles, and the writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, whose new book The Children of Jocasta retells with the story of Antigone, discuss turning the tales of the Greek myths into novels and why the ancient legends still have a contemporary and universal appeal.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Dymphna Flynn. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Tony Kushner
Interviewed Guest:
Julian Barratt
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Farnaby
Interviewed Guest:
Madeline Miller
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Haynes
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

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