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Front Row: Anjelica Huston; City of Culture 2017; Strangers on a Train; Turner

Anjelica Huston; City of Culture 2017; Strangers on a Train; Turner

20/11/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Anjelica Huston; City of Culture 2017; Strangers on a Train; Turner

As the City of Culture for 2017 is revealed, Mark Lawson talks to the successful bid team.

Arts news with Mark Lawson. Actress Anjelica Huston on her memoir, UK City of Culture 2017, Strangers on a Train, and Turner & the Sea at the National Maritime Museum.

With Mark Lawson.

As the first part of her autobiography is published, actress Anjelica Huston discusses her unconventional childhood with her father, film director John Huston, and why he encouraged her to roll cigars and drink sherry as a child, and what a Samurai warrior was doing in her kitchen.

Hull has been named as UK City of Culture 2017, beating competition from Swansea Bay, Leicester and Dundee. John Godber, playwright and former Artistic Director of Hull Truck Theatre Company, and writer and journalist David Mark discuss Hull's historic and contemporary cultural significance.

Lawrence Fox and Imogen Stubbs star in a new stage version of Strangers on a Train by Craig Warner, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, and famously filmed by Hitchcock. Critic Peter Kemp was at the opening night.

Turner & the Sea at the National Maritime Museum claims to be the first full-scale examination of J.M.W. Turner's lifelong fascination with the sea. The exhibition features 120 works by Turner and his contemporaries, including The Fighting Temeraire. Art critic Charlotte Mullins gives her response to this latest Turner show.

Producer: Jerome Weatherald.

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