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Front Row: Hopkins as Hitchcock, Ice Age, Antony Sher

Hopkins as Hitchcock, Ice Age, Antony Sher

05/02/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Hopkins as Hitchcock, Ice Age, Antony Sher

Ice Age artefacts, Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Antony Sher on Richard III's skeleton.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on a display of ice age artefacts, assesses Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, and meets architect Peter Zumthor.

With Mark Lawson.

Anthony Hopkins plays "the Master of Suspense" in a new film which looks at how Hitchcock made one of his best known films, Psycho, and explores his relationship with his wife Alma, played by Helen Mirren. Novelist and Hitchcock aficionado Nicholas Royle reviews.

Antony Sher discusses Richard III, gay marriage and taking the lead in satirical play, The Captain Of Köpenick. Described by its author, Carl Zuckmayer, as a German fairy tale, the story shows how an ex-convict shoemaker manages to impersonate an officer and as a result gains money and power.

Novelist Michelle Paver, creator of a fantasy series set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age, joins Mark to discuss the British Museum's exhibition of Ice Age sculpture, ceramics and ornaments.

World-renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been named as recipient of the 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He talks to Mark about his work and why it was so useful that his own father was a cabinet-maker.

Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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