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Front Row: Stewart Lee; Impressionist Gardens; The A-Team; Beat Generation

Stewart Lee; Impressionist Gardens; The A-Team; Beat Generation

29/07/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Stewart Lee; Impressionist Gardens; The A-Team; Beat Generation

Remakes of The Karate Kid and The A-Team reviewed; Stewart Lee analyses his stand-up act.

Remakes of The Karate Kid and The A-Team reviewed; Stewart Lee analyses his stand-up act; photographer Harold Chapman on the Beat generation; Impressionist Gardens reviewed.

With John Wilson, who reviews new cinematic remakes of the 1980s screen hits The Karate Kid and The 
A-Team. 

Comedian Stewart Lee analyses his work in How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life And Deaths Of A Stand-Up Comedian; the book details Lee's return to stand-up comedy after quitting the business in 2001 and going on to direct Jerry Springer the Opera.

John Wilson talks to photographer Harold Chapman, whose work depicts life at 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur, nicknamed the Beat Hotel, a run-down residence in Paris' Latin Quarter famed as the flophouse of some of the most important writers, poets and artists of the Beat Generation. 

Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, which examines the significance, origins, and influence of the Impressionist garden. 

Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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