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Front Row: Ben Folds; Elizabeth Price; Charles Dickens museum

Ben Folds; Elizabeth Price; Charles Dickens museum

04/12/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ben Folds; Elizabeth Price; Charles Dickens museum

Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price, Ben Folds, and the Charles Dickens museum reopens.

Elizabeth Price on winning this year's Turner Prize, musician Ben Folds discusses his photography and Simon Callow takes us on a tour of the revamped Charles Dickens Museum.

With John Wilson.

Elizabeth Price has won this year's Turner Prize for work including her video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979. She discusses her inspirations and what winning the prestigious art prize might mean for her future plans.

Ben Folds is best known for his musical career, notably with his band Ben Folds Five, but he is also a keen photographer and takes his camera on tour, sometimes capturing images of the audience at his gigs from the stage. Ben Folds discusses why Ben Folds Five are back together after a 13 year break, his collaborations with the novelist Nick Hornby and why taking photographs is similar to song-writing. 

The Charles Dickens Museum, the author's former Bloomsbury home, is about to re-open following a £3.1 million refurbishment project. Historian Kathryn Hughes and actor and author Simon Callow explore the rooms where Dickens lived at the start of his career, and where he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. 

Hip hop musician and producer RZA, of the Wu-Tang Clan, has also acted in several movies. He now makes his directing debut with The Man With The Iron Fists - and he also plays the title role and co-wrote the screenplay. Inspired by kung fu classics and featuring an international cast including Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and Chinese star Daniel Wu. the film is set in 19th century China, and follows the fortunes of a series of lone warriors forced to unite to defeat a common enemy. Film critic Mark Eccleston gives his verdict.

Producer Olivia Skinner.

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