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Front Row: Anime film Arrietty and Mansfield Park, the opera

Anime film Arrietty and Mansfield Park, the opera

27/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Anime film Arrietty and Mansfield Park, the opera

Kirsty Lang reviews anime film Arrietty and Jonathan Dove on his Mansfield Park opera.

Kirsty Lang reviews Arrietty, anime from the team behind Spirited Away; Jonathan Dove discusses his Mansfield Park opera; author Robert Muchamore on targeting reluctant readers.

With Kirsty Lang

Arrietty is the latest film from the Japanese anime team behind Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. Inspired by Mary Norton's The Borrowers, the adaptation follows Arrietty's growing friendship with a human boy called Sho.
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews

Mansfield Park is the title of a new chamber opera, by composer Jonathan Dove, commissioned by Heritage Opera specifically for performances in historic buildings around northern England this summer.
Jonathan Dove talks about setting Jane Austen to music and the art of creating intimate opera - with the piano replacing an orchestra. 

Robert Muchamore, author of the best-selling Cherub series, explains why he set out to write books designed particularly to appeal to reluctant teenage boy readers. 

This weekend the WOMAD festival in Wiltshire plays host to musicians from all over the world. 
Among them this year is Aurelio - a singer from Honduras whose people, the Garifuna, have kept a strong sense of African cultural identity ever since their shipwrecked ancestors settled on the Caribbean island of St Vincent in 1675. Aurelio talks about Garifuna life, his time as the first Garifuna congressman in Honduras and the advice he got from his mentor - the Senegalese singer, Youssou N'Dour 

Producer Claire Bartleet.

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