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Front Row: Poet Kathleen Jamie; John Bramwell from I Am Kloot; ENO's financial losses

Poet Kathleen Jamie; John Bramwell from I Am Kloot; ENO's financial losses

17/01/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Poet Kathleen Jamie; John Bramwell from I Am Kloot; ENO's financial losses

John Bramwell on I Am Kloot's new album; poet Kathleen Jamie; the ENO's financial crisis.

John Bramwell on I Am Kloot's new album, plus Kathleen Jamie on winning 2012's Costa Award for best poetry book, and the financial woes of the English National Opera.

With Mark Lawson
Kathleen Jamie won the 2012 Costa Poetry award for her collection The Overhaul. She translates some of the Scots dialect in the collection and explains why writing a poem is like washing the dishes.
John Bramwell of I Am Kloot discusses the making of their new album Let It All In, which was produced by Elbow's Guy Garvey.
John Berry, artistic director of the English National Opera discusses the company's financial woes, in the light of its recently-announced loss of more than £2m in the last financial year.
Jo Blair, Senior Programmer for Picturehouse Cinemas, reveals the reasons why so many Oscar nominated films are being released late in the UK.

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