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Front Row: Jacksons interview; Banksy auction

Jacksons interview; Banksy auction

21/02/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jacksons interview; Banksy auction

Jackson brothers Jackie, Marlon and Tito; Meera Syal in a new global debt play.

Jackson brothers Jackie, Marlon and Tito discuss Michael and being back on stage; a review of Meera Syal in a new political drama and writer Chris Morgan Jones with John Wilson.

With John Wilson.

The Jackson brothers are in the UK for a short concert tour. Jackie, Marlon and Tito talk about performing together for the first time in three decades and the early days of the Jackson five, when Michael was a little boy.

Anders Lustgarten's new play, If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep, considers what could happen if social care and public health were to be put completely into the hands of commercial companies, and run according to market forces. In keeping with the austerity theme, this production - whose stars include Meera Syal, Damien Molony and Susan Brown - is performed on a bare, stripped-down stage, with minimal props. Author Bidisha gives the critical verdict.

Before becoming a novelist, Chris Morgan Jones worked for one of the world's largest business investigations agency, a job he has described as part detective, part spy. He has drawn on his experience of working with Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern governments and New York banks for his new thriller The Jackal's Share. Chris Morgan Jones discusses the rich seam that corporate espionage provides for novelists and how much of the shady underworld in his thriller is based on fact.

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