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Front Row: Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville and Colm Toibin

Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville and Colm Toibin

24/09/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville and Colm Toibin

Kirsty Lang presents. Julian Fellowes and Hugh Bonneville on Downton Abbey.

Julian Fellowes and Hugh Bonneville discuss the ITV period drama Downton Abbey and Kirsty Lang interviews writer Colm Toibin about his short story collection The Empty Family.

With Kirsty Lang.

Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for his screenplay for the film Gosford Park. His latest creation - TV drama series Downton Abbey - follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in the years immediately before the First World War. He and his star, Hugh Bonneville - who plays the Earl of Grantham - talk to Kirsty Lang about the drama and also a previous collaboration, the film From Time To Time.

Oscar winning costume designer Sandy Powell discusses dress for dance with Caro Harkness, Head of Wardrobe at Scottish Ballet and Dance Critic Judith Mackrell.

Colm Toibin won the Costa novel of the Year award for his last book Brooklyn. He discusses his new collection of short stories, The Empty Family.

Producer: Samantha Psyk.

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