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Front Row: Christopher Eccleston on The Shadow Line

Christopher Eccleston on The Shadow Line

27/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Christopher Eccleston on The Shadow Line

Mark Lawson reports on the new Lyric Theatre in Belfast and new TV drama The Shadow Line.

Mark Lawson reports on the new Lyric Theatre in Belfast, and talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and writer/director Hugo Blick about their new TV crime drama The Shadow Line.

Christopher Eccleston (Shallow Grave, Doctor Who) stars in The Shadow Line, a new conspiracy thriller written, produced and directed by Hugo Blick (Sensitive Skin, Marion and Geoff). The pair talk to Mark about the series and working together. 

Mark Lawson reports on the reopening of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. Architect John Tuomey gives a tour of the building and we hear memories of the old Lyric from playwright Martin Lynch, whose play Dockers is being revived, from Conall Morrison, who is directing an all-Irish cast in the opening production of The Crucible and from Artistic Director Richard Croxford. 

Cedar Rapids is a new comedy film about a young insurance salesman who leaves his small town to attend his very first major business convention. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh is Front Row's assessor. 

Producer India Rakusen.

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