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The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice: Claudia talks to the nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe

10/12/2010

Claudia talks to the nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, Claudia talks to the nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe

Claudia is joined by the nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe.

Claudia is joined by the tenor Alfie Boe, and by Michael Peppiatt, leading authority on the Swiss scupltor Alberto Giacometti. Plus she discusses The Turner Prize.

Claudia is joined by Dan and Jeff from CBBC who will perform a potted version of Sleeping Beauty live - they are the creators of Potted Panto which features seven of the nation's favourite pantomimes, "potted" into 70 minutes. Dan and Jeff write and perform the Potted shows and have gone from taking Potted Potter at a tiny Edinburgh venue to bringing the most famous British theatre genre back into the West End for Christmas. 

The nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe talks about his new album. 

Author Michael Peppiatt gives us an insight into the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Michael is about to publish a new book to accompany an exhibition he has just curated in New York. Titled 'In Giacometti's studio' the works on view include 100 sculptures, paintings and drawings, plus photographs and documents, with many previously unseen items as they come from an unprecedented loan from Giacometti's heirs and other private collections. 

Actor Michael Fenton Stevens and musical director Philip Pope discuss Wilton's Vintage Christmas - a music hall style celebration of Victorian Christmas based around the idea of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, with poetry, music-hall songs, variety-style entertainment and Christmas carols. 

Art critic Estelle Lovatt talks about the Turner Prize - the history of the competition, the artists competing, past winners, public reaction, plus all the controversy.

Theatre critic Michael Billington reviews the latest plays and shows from around the UK.

And Penny Smith follows the ancient Egyptians' journey from death to the afterlife in a once-in-a lifetime exhibition at the British Museum focusing on the Book Of The Dead.

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