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Front Row: Man of Steel; AL Kennedy; Rolando Villazón

Man of Steel; AL Kennedy; Rolando Villazón

11/06/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Man of Steel; AL Kennedy; Rolando Villazón

New Superman film Man of Steel, tenor Rolando Villazón, and AL Kennedy's Cultural Exchange

Mark Lawson reviews new Superman film Man of Steel staring Henry Cavill, Cultural Exchange with writer AL Kennedy, and Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón on his love of Verdi.

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Man of Steel, the latest Superman blockbuster, explores how Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) became a superhero. Amy Adams plays Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane and Michael Shannon is Superman's nemesis General Zod. Matt Thorne reviews.

In Cultural Exchange, in which creative minds share a cultural passion, writer A L Kennedy explains why she has chosen Hitler's SS: A Portrait Of Evil, a TV drama from 1985, starring Bill Nighy.

Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón discusses his love of Verdi's music, 200 years after the composer's birth. He explains when he first encountered it and the effect it had on him, the differences between singing on stage and in a recording studio - and why opera singers should try to stay as fit as athletes.

Producer Claire Bartleet.

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