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Front Row: Cultural Exchange - Archbishop of Canterbury; Food on stage; The Fall on TV

Cultural Exchange - Archbishop of Canterbury; Food on stage; The Fall on TV

13/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Cultural Exchange - Archbishop of Canterbury; Food on stage; The Fall on TV

Archbishop of Canterbury, food for the stage, and Allan Cubitt, writer of The Fall.

Arts news with Mark Lawson. Cultural Exchange with the Archbishop of Canterbury, TV writer Allan Cubitt, and how to make food for the stage, like Titus Andronicus's gruesome pie.

With Mark Lawson.

Writer Allan Cubitt discusses his new TV drama The Fall. Set in Belfast, it stars Gillian Anderson as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, who has been brought in from the Metropolitan Police to review an unsolved murder. Allan Cubitt discusses creating the tense atmosphere and tangled plot lines of the new crime drama.

In the latest Cultural Exchange, The Archbishop of Canterbury shares his passion for Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, and also reflects on how we should commemorate the forthcoming centenary of the 1914-18 war. 

Shakepeare's Titus Andronicus includes a notorious scene requiring a pie with gruesome ingredients. As a new production of the play opens at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Craig Almond, Senior Prop Technician at the RSC, discuss the art of creating food on stage, and Alycia Smith-Howard, author of The Food of Love, examines Shakespeare's other culinary demands. 

Producer Olivia Skinner.

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