Original version

BBC Radio 4 LW

Front Row

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

BBC Radio 4 FM

Front Row: Top Boy writer Ronan Bennett; Andrew Lloyd Webber

Top Boy writer Ronan Bennett; Andrew Lloyd Webber

31/10/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Top Boy writer Ronan Bennett; Andrew Lloyd Webber

Ronan Bennett on his new TV drama Top Boy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Writer Ronan Bennett, whose new TV drama Top Boy focuses on young drug dealers in Hackney; Andrew Lloyd Webber on the English Heritage Angel Awards; and spooky music for Halloween.

With John Wilson, including an interview with novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett, whose new TV drama series Top Boy focuses on young drug dealers in Hackney, London. 

Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals the winners of the first English Heritage Angel Awards, which he founded earlier this year to celebrate the efforts of people attempting to rescue historic buildings or places. He discusses the future funding of restoration projects with Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage. 

Jack Goes Boating is the directorial debut of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. He also stars in the film as a shy and awkward limousine driver who is set up on a blind date. Andrew Collins reviews.

And to mark Halloween, Jeremy Summerly - conductor and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music - explains how composers create spooky and scary effects in classical music and film scores.

Producer Claire Bartleet.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Top Boy writer Ronan Bennett; Andrew Lloyd Webber

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4