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: Gilbert and George; Nanci Griffith; John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe

Gilbert and George; Nanci Griffith; John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe

08/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Gilbert and George; Nanci Griffith; John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Lawson meets Gilbert and George; singer Nanci Griffith; John Cusack plays Poe.

Mark Lawson meets Gilbert and George; singer Nanci Griffith; John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven; screenwriter Alun Owen reassessed by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

With Mark Lawson. 

Artistic double-act Gilbert and George discuss their working methods, as they open a new exhibition called The London Pictures, based on words taken from newspaper billboards. 

Novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce re-assesses the work of writer Alun Owen, best known for A Hard Day's Night, as three of his 1969 TV dramas, with Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Paul Scofield, are released on DVD. 

"I've had a hard life and I write it down", sings Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith on the title track of her new album, Intersection. It examines a difficult period of her life, fraught with relationship bust-ups and turmoil. As she starts a UK tour, she also reveals why she so enjoys performing in Bristol and Milton Keynes.

Novelist and critic Kim Newman reviews John Cusack as the latest incarnation of Edgar Allan Poe in the new film The Raven, and consider Poe's long cinematic history. 

Producer Stephen Hughes.

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

Gilbert and George; Nanci Griffith; John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4