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Front Row: Star Trek reviewed; Cultural Exchange with Germaine Greer; new show at Buckingham Palace

Star Trek reviewed; Cultural Exchange with Germaine Greer; new show at Buckingham Palace

07/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Star Trek reviewed; Cultural Exchange with Germaine Greer; new show at Buckingham Palace

With Mark Lawson, including Germaine Greer on an overlooked, undervalued Australian novel.

The new Star Trek film, a Tudor and Stuart fashion show at Buckingham Palace, and Germaine Greer selects an overlooked Australian novel for the Cultural Exchange. With Mark Lawson.

With Mark Lawson.

A diamond ring given by King Charles I to his young wife is one of the highlights of a new exhibition opening this week at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion aims to show how much clothes, jewellery and armour told us about their wearers and their status. A N Wilson gives his verdict.

In the latest episode of Cultural Exchange, in which creative minds select a favourite art-work, Germaine Greer nominates the The Getting of Wisdom, a novel by the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson, published in 1910.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Simon Pegg star in J J Abrams' return to the Star Trek film franchise. Captain Kirk and crew embark on a mission to Earth, now a war zone, to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction in Star Trek Into Darkness. Naomi Alderman reviews.

The Vulcan bomber takes centre stage in James Hamilton-Paterson's new novel Under the Radar, about the lives of British aircrew at the height of the Cold War. The writer discusses the book which is set in 1961, as the aircrew brace themselves for an imminent Soviet nuclear attack.


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