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Front Row: Burton and Taylor; Denise Mina; Noah Baumbach; Mark Ravenhill's Cultural Exchange

Burton and Taylor; Denise Mina; Noah Baumbach; Mark Ravenhill's Cultural Exchange

22/07/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Burton and Taylor; Denise Mina; Noah Baumbach; Mark Ravenhill's Cultural Exchange

Arts news. Mark Lawson reviews Burton and Taylor, and talks to crime writer Denise Mina.

Mark Lawson reviews Burton and Taylor, and talks to crime writer Denise Mina and film director Noah Baumbach. Mark Ravenhill chooses Dennis Potter's Casanova for Cultural Exchange.

With Mark Lawson.

Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West star as the ultimate celebrity couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, in a new BBC Drama written by William Ivory. Focusing on the period when they appeared together on Broadway in Noel Coward's Private Lives, Burton and Taylor imagines the complex relationship between the ex-husband and wife. Linda Grant reviews.

Writer Denise Mina has received the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel award, for the second year running. Her winning novel, For Gods and Beasts, weaves together three stories of Glasgow's criminal underworld. She explains why she had to re-write it over a weekend and reveals the flaws in her books.

Director Noah Baumbach discusses Frances Ha, his acclaimed black and white drama about the misadventures of a twentysomething dancer, played by co-writer Greta Gerwig. He also reveals what his parents thought of his break-through film, The Squid And The Whale, which was inspired by the fall-out from their divorce

For Cultural Exchange, dramatis Mark Ravenhill chooses Casanova, the first television series from Dennis Potter, starring Frank Finley as Casanova.

Producer Nicki Paxman.

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