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Front Row: Christina Ricci; Nick Park; writer Errol John reassessed

Christina Ricci; Nick Park; writer Errol John reassessed

29/02/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Christina Ricci; Nick Park; writer Errol John reassessed

Christina Ricci interview; Trinidad-born writer Errol John remembered; Nick Park.

With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Christina Ricci, Trinidad-born writer Errol John remembered, and a review of controversial new TV series Make Bradford British.

With Mark Lawson.

Christina Ricci discusses her role in Bel Ami, a film based on Maupassant's novel about a young man's scheming rise to power in Paris, through his relationships with influential women. Ricci reflects on how she first read the book as a teenager, her transition from child to adult star and how she combines films with TV roles such as Maggie in Pam Am.

Make Bradford British is a two-part documentary series which aims to see if people of different racial, religious and cultural backgrounds can live happily together. Eight people from Bradford, who all failed a citizenship test, are asked share a house in a microcosm of a multicultural society. Gabriel Tate reviews. 

The Trinidad-born actor and playwright Errol John died in 1988, and is largely overlooked, but next week his play Moon on a Rainbow Shawl receives a new National Theatre production. Written in 1953, the play focuses on soldiers returning to Trinidad after the second world war. Writer Kwame Kwei-Armah, director Michael Buffong and actress Jacqueline Chan, who worked with Errol John, re-assess John's life and career. 


Radio 4 is inviting you to nominate New Elizabethans - people who have made an impact on the UK from 1952 to today. This week Front Row is asking writers and artists for their suggestions, and tonight Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park suggests not only a man in an ill-fitting suit who's big in Albania, but also a mischievous boy with a naughty dog. 

Producer: Jerome Weatherald.

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