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Stranger Things 2, Richard Bean on Young Marx, The Essay

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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Nicholas Hytner, who used to run the National Theatre, has a new project - The Bridge Theatre. Richard Bean (who wrote One Man Two Guvnors) and Clive Coleman discuss their play Young Marx, the theatre's opening production, which reveals how the man who brilliantly analysed the workings of the capitalist economy was hopeless with money.

Stranger Things, the retro Netflix teen sci-fi series, was a surprise breakout TV hit last year. Can its sequel, Stranger Things 2, live up to the expectation? Boyd Hilton gives his verdict.

Rosalind Porter, Deputy Editor of Granta, and essayist Francis Spufford discuss the revival of the essay - a literary form which last enjoyed a golden age in the 18th century and is finding new fans in the 21st century.

And music from the Danish group Between Music, who perform their new concert AquaSonic underwater.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Bean
Interviewed Guest:
Clive Coleman
Interviewed Guest:
Boyd Hilton
Interviewed Guest:
Rosalind Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Francis Spufford

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