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Stephen Poliakoff, Sian Phillips, Brigit Forsyth and Matthew Kelly

30/08/2013

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, Stephen Poliakoff, Sian Phillips, Brigit Forsyth and Matthew Kelly

Claudia is back at the helm with special guests from the world of the arts.

Claudia is back at the helm with special guests from the world of the arts, including Stephen Poliakoff and Matthew Kelly.

Claudia's back at the helm for the Radio 2 Arts Show


With special guests from the world of the arts including Stephen Poliakoff. One of Britain's most influential writers for the stage and screen, Stephen won the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright award for City Sugar and Hitting Town in 1976, aged just 23. For the first time ever Hitting Town - the TV drama that Mary Whitehouse tried to ban - will be available on DVD. Stephen chats to Claudia about his recollections of that time

Claudia talks to Matthew Kelly, who takes time out from rehearsing his new play To Sir With Love

And Sian Philips and Brigit Forsyth drop by ahead of starring in Alan Bennett's People, directed by Nicholas Hytner which re-opens the Birmingham Rep

Plus the latest film and theatre reviews with Helen O'Hara and Michael Billington.

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