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Front Row: Julian Barnes, Andrea Arnold, Sir David Chipperfield

Julian Barnes, Andrea Arnold, Sir David Chipperfield

22/12/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Julian Barnes, Andrea Arnold, Sir David Chipperfield

Mark Lawson unwraps a selection of new interviews with the arts headline-makers of 2011.

Mark Lawson presents interviews with arts headline-makers of 2011, including Nicholas Hytner and Richard Bean on their play One Man, Two Guvnors, and Booker winner Julian Barnes.

Mark Lawson unwraps a selection of new interviews with arts headline makers of 2011. 

Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes explains why he no longer refuses to read his reviews, and poet Jo Shapcott, winner of the Costa Prize for her collection Of Mutability, discusses why the book's subject, her cancer, is never referred to explicitly. 

Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Richard Bean reflect on the success of their hit play One Man, Two Guvnors, which will make its way to Broadway after a sell-out UK tour and London run.

Film-maker Andrea Arnold is best known for contemporary dramas such as Red Road and Fish Tank, but her 2011 version of Wuthering Heights won wide acclaim. She reveals why her next film won't be an adaptation.

Architect Sir David Chipperfield received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal this year, as well as completing the Turner Contemporary in Margate and the Hepworth in Wakefield. He discusses how the current wranglings in Europe could affect his profession.

Producer Ellie Bury.

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