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Front Row: James Meek, The Three Stooges reviewed, Stockhausen in helicopters

James Meek, The Three Stooges reviewed, Stockhausen in helicopters

21/08/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, James Meek, The Three Stooges reviewed, Stockhausen in helicopters

Novelist James Meek, The Three Stooges return, and Stockhausen's epic opera Mittwoch.

Author James Meek on his new novel The Heart Broke In, a report from Birmingham on a staging of Karlheinz Stockhausen's vast opera Mittwoch, and The Three Stooges remake reviewed.

With John Wilson.

Best known for gross-out comedies There's Something About Mary and Dumb And Dumber, the Farrelly Brothers pay homage to the tradition of American slapstick with their take on The Three Stooges. Adam Smith delivers his verdict.

Writer James Meek discusses his latest novel The Heart Broke In, a sweeping family saga set in the digital age.

With a string quartet playing in four helicopters, musicians suspended in the air and a dancing camel, Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Mittwoch has long been considered almost unstageable. John reports from Birmingham on the eve of the work's world premiere. 

Cork Street in London has long been famous for its art galleries. Many notable 20th century artists first came to wider attention there, but now a number of galleries face an uncertain future in the wake of redevelopment plans. The Mayor Gallery, opened in 1925, was the first to open, and its current owner James Mayor explains how Cork Street's role as a centre for visual art is threatened. 

Producer Ellie Bury.

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