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Front Row: Hiliary Swank interview; School of Comedy

Hiliary Swank interview; School of Comedy

07/01/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Hiliary Swank interview; School of Comedy

Kirsty Lang talks to Hilary Swank, Dulwich Picture Gallery director and child comedians.

Kirsty Lang talks to Hilary Swank about her new film Conviction, reports on an after-school comedy club which spawned a Channel 4 series and to the Dulwich Picture Gallery director.

Kirsty Lang talks to double Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank about her role in the film Conviction, in which she plays a working mother who puts herself through law school so that she can defend her brother against a murder conviction. 

As an after-school club which teaches children comedy plans to expand, Kirsty Lang talks to the teachers and pupils, and to some of the performers in the Channel 4 series it sparked. 

The curator of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ian Dejardin, describes how they plan to celebrate the bicentenary of the first purpose-built art gallery in England, which was designed by Sir John Soane and opened in 1811. 

After Batman and Spider-Man comes The Green Hornet. Film critic Ryan Gilbey reflects on the way films are now based upon B-list superheroes. 


Producer: Robyn Read.

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