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Front Row: Luther creator Neil Cross; re-imagining Ballets Russes

Luther creator Neil Cross; re-imagining Ballets Russes

21/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Luther creator Neil Cross; re-imagining Ballets Russes

Neil Cross, creator of Luther; Ballets Russes re-invented; when pop name-drops go wrong.

With Mark Lawson, who interviews Luther creator Neil Cross; new video game Journey is reviewed; and Mark Baldwin and George Williamson discuss re-imagining the Ballets Russes.

With Mark Lawson. 

Writer Neil Cross created Luther, the tormented detective played by Idris Elba on TV, and also wrote for the acclaimed spy series Spooks. He discusses why he hopes Luther will move from the small screen to the cinema. 

A century after Diaghilev's Ballets Russes caused a sensation in Paris, two major British ballet companies are re-imagining the Ballets Russes' most famous works. Mark talks to the 21 year-old choreographer George Williamson who has re-worked Stravinsky's Firebird for English National Ballet, and Mark Baldwin from the Rambert Dance Company, who has created a contemporary take on Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faune. 

Novelist Naomi Alderman reviews Journey, the acclaimed new video game in which players find themselves in a vast and empty desert. 

This week Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner announced he would change a piece of music in the first episode of the new series, set in 1965, after canny preview audiences spotted the song hadn't been written yet. Music writer David Hepworth considers what happens when writers get their musical references wrong. 

Producer Ellie Bury.

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