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Front Row: Mercury Music Prize, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dennis Kelly

Mercury Music Prize, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dennis Kelly

11/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Mercury Music Prize, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dennis Kelly

Mark Lawson presents news of the shortlist for the Mercury Prize for album of the year.

Arts news with Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Mercury Prize for album of the year. Plus the long-awaited final book in Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel trilogy.

With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for album of the year, announced today.

Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died in 2011, walked from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the early 1930s. This resulted in two best-selling books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Colin Thubron and biographer Artemis Cooper discuss how they pieced together Leigh Fermor's unfinished manuscript and diaries to produce the final part of the trilogy, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.

And Dennis Kelly, who wrote the book for the hit musical Matilda and created the cult Channel 4 series Utopia, on his debut play for the Royal Court Theatre in London. The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas is about a man who tries to make his fortune by telling lies.

Producer Tim Prosser.

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