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Front Row: Homeland, the Syrian poet Adonis and Restoration Comedy

Homeland, the Syrian poet Adonis and Restoration Comedy

03/02/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Homeland, the Syrian poet Adonis and Restoration Comedy

With Mark Lawson. The hit US TV series Homeland, Syrian poet Adonis and Restoration Drama.

Mark Lawson previews the US television series Homeland and meets the 81-year-old pioneering Syrian poet Adonis.

Mark Lawson and Emily Bell preview the hit US television series Homeland, a political thriller which stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis. 

The 81 year old Syrian poet Adonis is one of the Arabic-speaking world's most celebrated writers and one of the most provocative. He regularly crops up on the shortlists of major literary prizes and as a tribute to him opens in London he talks to Mark Lawson about about his long literary career.

Restoration comedy is a distinctive style of British theatre. As a new production of William Congreve's famous play of money and morals opens, cast members Deborah Findlay, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, and Leo Bill talk about the art behind this 17th century dramatic form

And with the news that composer Paul Mealor is on a quest to find a singer who can sing a note so low that it is thought never to have been sung before for his new work, bass baritone Stephen Richardson discusses the challenge of hitting those deep 'money' notes, from Purcell to Tavener. 

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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