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Front Row: Lesley Sharp; Noah Stewart; We Bought a Zoo

Lesley Sharp; Noah Stewart; We Bought a Zoo

12/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Lesley Sharp; Noah Stewart; We Bought a Zoo

Actress Lesley Sharp; tenor Noah Stewart; Matt Damon in the film We Bought a Zoo.

Actress Lesley Sharp on her role in TV drama Scott and Bailey; tenor Noah Stewart on a career which has taken him from Harlem to the Royal Opera House; We Bought a Zoo reviewed.

Actress Lesley Sharp talks about returning to her role as Manchester police officer DC Janet Scott in the TV drama Scott and Bailey, alongside Suranne Jones. She reflects on how the series approaches the work of the murder squad, and discusses her career which includes The Full Monty and Mike Leigh's Vera Drake. 

Matt Damon stars in the new film We Bought A Zoo, based on a British true story about a man who decided to take on a struggling zoo. Directed by Cameron Crowe, the film moves the action to California. Gaylene Gould reviews.

Noah Stewart is a young American tenor who grew up in Harlem and has already played Don Jose in Carmen, Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and Rodolfo in La Boheme. This week he releases a CD of songs, and opens at the Royal Opera House in Judith Weir's new opera Miss Fortune. He reflects on working with a living composer, flying with a blanket over his head to avoid germs, and the views of his mother on his career so far. 

Producer Nicki Paxman.

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