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Front Row: Cultural Exchange with Tracey Emin; end of TV's Broadchurch

Cultural Exchange with Tracey Emin; end of TV's Broadchurch

22/04/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Cultural Exchange with Tracey Emin; end of TV's Broadchurch

Cultural Exchange with Tracey Emin on Vermeer; the end of Broadchurch; Bernie reviewed.

Launch of the Cultural Exchange project featuring Tracey Emin on her favourite artwork, the end of Broadchurch, a review of Jack Black in Bernie, Belfast playwright Graham Reid.

With Mark Lawson. 

Tonight Front Row launches Cultural Exchange, in which 75 creative minds share their passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or other work of art. Tonight Tracey Emin reflects on her favourite painting - Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. 

The ITV series Broadchurch reaches its climax tonight, when the murderer of Danny Latimer is revealed. It's reported that even the actor playing the killer didn't know they were the guilty party until the last moment. Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall and John Yorke, author of Into the Woods, A Five Act Journey into Story, discuss the art of suspense in TV drama.

Jack Black stars as a funeral director who strikes up an unlikely relationship with an elderly widow played by Shirley MacLaine in the film Bernie, a black comedy based on a macabre true story. Novelist Lionel Shriver delivers her verdict.

Playwright Graham Reid discusses his latest play Love, Billy. It's the fifth part of a series which focuses on a Belfast based family, first seen on TV in 1982 with Kenneth Branagh in the leading role. In this latest instalment Billy returns to Belfast after 25 years away.


Producer Dymphna Flynn.

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