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Front Row: Akram Khan; the Iraq War documentaries; Antonia Fraser's Cultural Exchange

Akram Khan; the Iraq War documentaries; Antonia Fraser's Cultural Exchange

29/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Akram Khan; the Iraq War documentaries; Antonia Fraser's Cultural Exchange

Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange with Antonia Fraser.

Choreographer Akram Khan on his new work inspired by The Rite of Spring, the verdict on Norma Percy's documentary series The Iraq War, and Cultural Exchange with Antonia Fraser.

With Mark Lawson.

Award-winning documentary maker Norma Percy's latest series, The Iraq War, investigates the events that led Britain and America to go to war with Iraq, with testimony from major players including Tony Blair, Jack Straw and key figures in the Iraqi government. Chris Mullin and Richard Ottaway MP discuss whether the series give us a new insight into how the war came about.

To celebrate the centenary of Stravinsky's controversial ballet The Rite of Spring, dancer and choreographer Akram Khan has created a new interpretation of the piece with an original score by Nitin Sawnhey, Jocelyn Pook and Ben Frost. Akram Khan discusses his new work ITMOi (In the Mind of Igor) and explains how he went about following in Stravinsky's footsteps.

In Cultural Exchange, in which leading creative minds share a cultural passion, historian Antonia Fraser champions J M W Turner's painting The Fighting Temeraire.

Producer Olivia Skinner.

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