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Front Row: Karl Hyde; Harold Pinter's The Hothouse; Kate Clanchy; Jodi Picoult

Karl Hyde; Harold Pinter's The Hothouse; Kate Clanchy; Jodi Picoult

10/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Karl Hyde; Harold Pinter's The Hothouse; Kate Clanchy; Jodi Picoult

Karl Hyde of Underworld, Kate Clanchy, The Hothouse and Jodi Picoult's Cultural Exchange.

Harold Pinter's The Hothouse in a revival, Karl Hyde of Underworld, poet Kate Clanchy on writing her first novel, and Jodi Picoult's Cultural Exchange. With John Wilson.

With John Wilson.

Karl Hyde, of electronic duo Underworld, has worked with prominent film directors Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella. Along with his partner Rick Smith, he was also the musical director of the London 2012 Olympics. Hyde talks about his latest project, Edgeland - a soundtrack for The Outer Edges, a film about Essex - and reveals the real inspiration behind their trance anthem Born Slippy.

Harold Pinter's The Hothouse is in a rare revival on the London stage, starring John Simm and Simon Russell Beale. Writer Iain Sinclair delivers his verdict on the play about a bureaucratic mental institution run by a sadist.

Poet Kate Clanchy won the National Short Story award in 2009 with her story The Not-Dead and the Saved. Now she has taken the next literary leap by writing her first novel Meeting the English. She explains how the book came about, despite her vow that she'd never write a novel.

In the latest episode of Cultural Exchange, in which creative minds select a favourite art-work, best-selling author Jodi Picoult nominates Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.

Producer Ellie Bury.

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