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Front Row: Crow with Handspring puppets, guitarist Milos, Mark Wallinger

Crow with Handspring puppets, guitarist Milos, Mark Wallinger

22/06/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Crow with Handspring puppets, guitarist Milos, Mark Wallinger

Ted Hughes' Crow, guitarist Milos, artist Mark Wallinger and Gordon Ramsay behind bars.

Kirsty Lang reviews Crow, a new show from the makers of the War Horse puppets, Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger, classical guitarist Milos and Gordon Ramsay behind bars.

With Kirsty Lang.

The Handspring Puppet Company, the creators of the award-winning War Horse horses, have turned to Ted Hughes' sequence of Crow poems for their new show, combining puppetry, music, dance and extracts of the verse. It's part of the London 2012 Festival. Bidisha reviews.

In the week that Jimmy Carr has apologised for taking part in tax avoidance schemes, the comedy critic Stephen Armstrong explains why successful comedians have always been rich and why they've always needed to hide it.

Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger has a large-scale solo show Site opening at the Baltic in Gateshead this week, to be followed next month by a film commission at Turner Contemporary in Margate, and a collaboration with the Royal Opera House and the National Gallery in London on a new ballet based on paintings by Titian. In his studio Wallinger takes stock of his workload and has the latest news on his plan to erect a 50-metre high statue of a white horse in the Kent countryside.

Gordon Ramsay goes to Brixton prison in his new TV series Gordon Behind Bars, as he attempts to set up a successful food business with the prisoners, giving himself a deadline of six months. Rebecca Nicholson reviews.

Milos Karadaglic is a classical guitarist from Montenegro. Generally known as just Milos, he was the UK's best-selling classical recording artist last year, and Gramophone magazine's Young Artist of the Year. With a new CD of Latin American music and a BBC Proms concert this summer, he talks about his love for the guitar and the importance of looking after his nails.

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