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Front Row: Sue Townsend, Charlotte Keatley, Black Gold

Sue Townsend, Charlotte Keatley, Black Gold

21/02/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Sue Townsend, Charlotte Keatley, Black Gold

With Mark Lawson, including Sue Townsend and playwright Charlotte Keatley.

With Mark Lawson, including best-selling novelist Sue Townsend, playwright Charlotte Keatley, and a review of Black Gold, starring Antonio Banderas and Freida Pinto.

With Mark Lawson. 

Mark Eccleston reviews Black Gold, a film about warring Arabian tribes during the 1930s oil boom, which was financed by Qatar and stars Antonio Banderas as a desert sheikh and Freida Pinto as a harem charmer. 

Three decades after publishing the first of her hugely successful Adrian Mole books, Sue Townsend talks about her new novel about modern family life, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, and how losing her eyesight has affected her writing process. 

Charlotte Keatley's play My Mother Said I Never Should is, according to the National Theatre, one of the most significant plays of the 20th Century. Charlotte tells Mark about her latest play, Our Father, and explains why writing a play is like unravelling a dream.

Producer Timothy Prosser.

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