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Front Row

Claire Foy, Bryan Hymel, Film Heritage

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Actress Claire Foy talks about returning to play Queen Elizabeth II in series two of Netflix's hugely successful TV series The Crown.

Tenor Bryan Hymel, famous for his high Cs, is in performing in both Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in the same evening at the Royal Opera House, Covemnt Gardens. He talks about the challenges of this, and he sings live in the Front Row studio.

As Powell and Pressburger's 1946 masterpiece film A Matter of Life and Death returns to the big screen round the UK, we ask film writers Ian Christie and Rosemary Fletcher : How do we pass on our film heritage to a new generation ? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Claire Foy
Interviewed Guest:
Bryan Hymel
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Christie
Interviewed Guest:
Rosie Fletcher
Performer:
Bryan Hymel
Producer:
Julian May

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