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Front Row: Betty Blue Eyes reviewed

Betty Blue Eyes reviewed

14/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Betty Blue Eyes reviewed

Mark Lawson reviews Betty Blue Eyes, the new stage musical based on an Alan Bennett film.

Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reviews the new stage musical Betty Blue Eyes, based on Alan Bennett's film A Private Function. Plus news of this year's BBC Proms.

With Mark Lawson, who reviews the new stage musical, Betty Blue Eyes, based on Alan Bennett's film, A Private Function - the tale of a pig being secretly reared in the austerity Britain of 1947. 

Roger Wright, Director of the Proms and Controller of Radio 3, talks about this year's BBC Proms season.

Turner Contemporary - a new art gallery in Kent - opens this weekend. Front Row hears from artists Tracey Emin and Conrad Shawcross, the architect Sir David Chipperfield and gallery director Victoria Pomeroy. 


Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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