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Front Row: Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; BBC Short Story Award

Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; BBC Short Story Award

24/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; BBC Short Story Award

Mark Lawson on the artworks competing to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

The artworks competing to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, the verdict on Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Alfred and Adrian Brendel, and the BBC Short Story Award.

With Mark Lawson.

The artworks competing to occupy Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth in 2015 and 2016 were unveiled today. Shortlisted artists Marcus Coates and Liliane Lijn discuss their designs, along with Ekow Eshun, chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, who make the final decision about which two artworks will be successful.

Stephen King publishes a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining today. The boy Danny Torrance has grown up, but has he managed to escape the legacy of his alcoholic psychopathic father? Rachel Cooke reviews Doctor Sleep.

Lionel Shriver is the latest writer in our series of interviews with the contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013. Her story called Prepositions is set around events during 9/11 and takes the form of a letter between two women. Prepositions is broadcast on Wednesday at 3.30pm on Radio 4.

Alfred Brendel, one of the world's greatest pianists, retired from playing in public in 2008, although at the age of 82 he still performs his own poems and is about to take part in a poetry and music event with his son, the cellist Adrian Brendel. They reflect on their artistic relationship and what it is like to perform together as father and son.


Producer Dymphna Flynn.

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