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Front Row: Bobby Womack, Jake Arnott, and Killer Joe reviewed

Bobby Womack, Jake Arnott, and Killer Joe reviewed

29/06/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Bobby Womack, Jake Arnott, and Killer Joe reviewed

John Wilson talks to soul singer Bobby Womack; novelist Jake Arnott; Killer Joe reviewed.

Bobby Womack talks about surviving serious illness and working with Damon Albarn; Jake Arnott on his ambitious new novel; controversial thriller Killer Joe is reviewed.

With John Wilson. 

Veteran soul singer Bobby Womack talks to John about surviving serious illness and a 50 year career that started in gospel and included writing hits for the likes of Janis Joplin and The Rolling Stones, and working with Damon Albarn on his new album.

Matthew McConaughey is cast against type in his new film, Killer Joe, as a police detective who moonlights as a hit man. This controversial thriller comes from William Friedkin, best known as the director of The Exorcist, and is based on a play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tracy Letts. Briony Hanson, Director of Film at the British Council, reviews. 

Jake Arnott talks about his new book The House of Rumour, which weaves stories of the occult, science fiction and espionage from the Second World War to the present day. It enlists real people - Ian Fleming, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Hess, L Ron Hubbard - and places them in a cast of fictional science fiction writers, spies and actors. Jake reveals how Fleming met Crowley in real life, and how Dr John Dee, magician at the court of Elizabeth I, was the first agent 007.


Producer Ella-mai Robey.

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