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V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, Assange documentary Risk, Anthony Cartwright's Brexit novel

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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This Friday the new Exhibition Road Quarter at London's Victoria & Albert Museum opens to the public. The architect behind the six-year project, Amanda Levete, and the museum's new director Tristram Hunt, discuss the £48m design which features a new porcelain-tiled courtyard, entrance hall, and a cavernous underground gallery for the museum's temporary exhibitions.

Risk, a new documentary about Julian Assange from Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras, was filmed over six years and with unprecedented access to the Wikileaks founder. The film was originally shown at last year's Cannes Film Festival, but Poitras has since re-cut it to incorporate the DNC email leaks that took place during the US Presidential election, and the sexual abuse allegations brought against one of the film's subjects. The director discusses her controversial film.

After the result of last year's European referendum, Meike Ziervogel, founder of Peirene Press, commissioned Anthony Cartwright to write a novel in response to it, one that explored the conflict that was so evident in society. They discuss their working relationship throughout the writing process, and the resulting novel, The Cut.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Jerome Weatherald. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Amanda Levete
Interviewed Guest:
Tristram Hunt
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Poitras
Interviewed Guest:
Meike Ziervogel
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Cartwright

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