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Front Row: Mel Gibson reviewed and Pianist Mitsuko Uchida

Mel Gibson reviewed and Pianist Mitsuko Uchida

08/05/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Mel Gibson reviewed and Pianist Mitsuko Uchida

With Mark Lawson. Mel Gibson on screen; pianist Mitsuko Uchida; actress Maxine Peake.

Mark Lawson reviews Mel Gibson in action thriller 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation'; pianist Mitsuko Uchida; Maxine Peake discusses her varied career on stage and screen.

With Mark Lawson. 

Mel Gibson returns to the screen this week in How I Spent Last Summer, in which he plays a career criminal arrested by the authorities in Mexico and sent to a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews the film (called Get the Gringo for its US release) which Gibson co-wrote. 

Today, Japanese born classical pianist, Dame Mitsuko Uchida is awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal - one of the highest honours in classical music. Created to commemorate the centenary of Beethoven's birth in 1870, it counts Brahms, Delius, Elgar, Stravinsky, Britten, Bernstein, Alfred Brendel; Simon Rattle; Plácido Domingo and Daniel Barenboim among previous recipients. 

Maxine Peake discusses returning to the role of Martha, an ambitious barrister, in a second series of Silk, the advantages of working in both TV and theatre and why Kate Bush's music helps her approach Strindberg. 

We pay tribute to Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children's book Where the Wild Things Are, who has died aged 83


Producer Claire Bartleet.

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