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Front Row: From Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013

From Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013

22/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, From Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013

Mark Lawson reports on the Turner Prize in Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013.

Mark Lawson reports on 2013 Turner Prize; an interview with the composer Gerald Barry; writer Jennifer Johnston; the inaugural City of Derry International Choral Festival.

Mark Lawson presents a special programme from Derry~Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013.

This year's Turner Prize for contemporary art is on show in Derry~Londonderry and features artists Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. David Shrigley and Laure Prouvost discuss their work and critic Philip Hensher delivers his verdict on the show.

Derry-based writer Jennifer Johnston was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Shadows on Our Skin. Her Three Monologues, in response to The Troubles, are being performed as part of the City of Culture celebrations and her new novel A Sixpenny Song is published this month. She discusses the impact of the 2013 celebrations on the atmosphere in the city.

Gerald Barry's comic opera The Importance of Being Earnest is being performed in Derry this week and then in Belfast, Cork and Dublin later in the year. He explains how he went about filleting Oscar Wilde's text and why Lady Bracknell was always going to be cast as a basso profondo.

The inaugural City of Derry International Choral Festival is being hosted by local chamber choir Codetta. The festival's artistic director Dónal Doherty and soprano Laura Sheerin discuss how it feels to be taking part.

Producer Ellie Bury.

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