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Front Row: New York Special: John Tiffany, Lyndsay Faye, Mike Daisey's play about Apple

New York Special: John Tiffany, Lyndsay Faye, Mike Daisey's play about Apple

09/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, New York Special: John Tiffany, Lyndsay Faye, Mike Daisey's play about Apple

Kirsty Lang in New York, with director John Tiffany; art for healthcare; criminal slang.

Kirsty Lang in New York, with acclaimed stage director John Tiffany; news of a scheme where artists trade their work for healthcare; and tales of criminal slang from the 1840s.

British director John Tiffany, who had a huge success with the play Black Watch, is now working on a Broadway musical version of the romantic film Once. The film, set in Dublin, won an Oscar in 2007 for best original song - but wasn't a musical. John Tiffany discusses how he's brought an Irish bar to the New York stage. 

Writer Lyndsay Faye's new crime thriller, Gods Of Gotham, is set in 1840s New York, when the city's police force was founded. Much of the novel is written in Flash, the criminal slang of the day, which was documented by the city's first police chief. Lyndsay Faye reflects on how she researched the era. 

Kirsty visits Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx, where they've introduced a scheme to allow artists and performers without health insurance to trade their creative talents for treatment. 

Writer and performer Mike Daisey is a self-confessed geek, whose latest show, The Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs, describes his love affair with technology. He describes how this led him to China, to seek out the workers who labour in the factories assembling Apple's computers - and he reveals what he found.

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