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Front Row: Khaled Hosseini; Michael Landy; DJs in film; Cultural Exchange with AS Byatt

Khaled Hosseini; Michael Landy; DJs in film; Cultural Exchange with AS Byatt

22/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Khaled Hosseini; Michael Landy; DJs in film; Cultural Exchange with AS Byatt

Novelist Khaled Hosseini, Michael Landy's recycled saints and AS Byatt's Cultural Exchange

Arts news. Mark Lawson reports on Michael Landy's new kinetic sculptures of saints, talks to Kite Runner novelist Khaled Hosseini and hears AS Byatt's choice for Cultural Exchange.

With Mark Lawson.


Khaled Hosseini's debut novel The Kite Runner was an international best-seller. As he publishes a new novel, And the Mountains Echoed, Hosseini reflects on being a writer in exile, his creative process, and censorship in his native Afghanistan.

Saints Alive is the new project from the artist Michael Landy, who once destroyed all his possessions for a work called Break Down. Images of saints from the National Gallery's collection have been cast in three dimensions and assembled using materials he sourced from car boot sales and flea markets. He shows Mark around the exhibition.

Novelist A S Byatt reveals her choice for Front Row's Cultural Exchange, in which leading creative minds nominate a favourite artwork.

DJ and film critic Andrew Collins presents his top 10 of disc jockeys in film, as The King Of Marvin Gardens is re-released, starring Jack Nicholson as a late-night talk show host.

Producer Stephen Hughes.

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