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Front Row: Yinka Shonibare; playing prime ministers on stage; film classification

Yinka Shonibare; playing prime ministers on stage; film classification

01/03/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Yinka Shonibare; playing prime ministers on stage; film classification

Artist Yinka Shonibare, portraying the PM on stage, and UK attitudes to film censorship.

Yinka Shonibare discusses his exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, actors reflect on prime ministers in Peter Morgan's play The Audience, plus a report on film classification.

With Mark Lawson.

Haydn Gwynne, Nathaniel Parker and Paul Ritter reflect on the experience of playing Margaret Thatcher, Gordon Brown and John Major respectively in Peter Morgan's new play The Audience. Helen Mirren returns to the role of Queen Elizabeth II as the play imagines the meetings between the monarch and the prime ministers who have served during her reign.

As the first major UK show dedicated to the work of Yinka Shonibare opens at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the artist discusses the importance of humour in art, the impact of the success of his Trafalgar Square fourth plinth artwork, Nelson's Ship In A Bottle, and his love of opera.

The British Board of Film Classification has today launched a survey asking people about their choice of viewing, their attitudes to topics such as strong language, and their views about current film certificates. So how will the BBFC use this information? BBFC Assistant Director David Austin talks about how their guidelines relate to public opinion.

Producer Ellie Bury.

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