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Front Row: Suzanne Vega and Orange Prize 2010

Suzanne Vega and Orange Prize 2010

09/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Suzanne Vega and Orange Prize 2010

Suzanne Vega, RA Summer Exhibition, Rattigan's After the Dance, and Orange Prize announced

Mark Lawson talks to American singer Suzanne Vega, visits the 242nd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, reviews Rattigan's After the Dance and reveals the 2010 Orange Prize winner.

American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk music revival of the early 1980s, and has sold seven million albums and received seven Grammy Award nominations since. As she tours the UK and releases the first of four new thematic albums, she discusses her career and inspirations and explains why she is the "mother of the MP3".

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a major new National Theatre staging of Terence Rattigan's 1939 play After the Dance, set amidst the wealthy socialites of the 1920s. Peter Kemp reviews.

The winner of this year's Orange Prize, for fiction written by a woman, is announced by chairman of the judges Daisy Goodwin 

The Royal Academy Annual Summer Exhibition, now in its 242nd year in London, is the world's largest open submission contemporary art exhibition and features work by both emerging and established artists, this year including Yinka Shonibare, Gillian Ayres and Tracey Emin. Mark Lawson meets coordinator Stephen Chambers.

Producer Nicki Paxman.

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