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Front Row: People of the Year 2013, part 2

People of the Year 2013 - Part 2

24/12/2013

People of the Year 2013, part 2

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, People of the Year 2013, part 2

Mark Lawson meets the people who have made headlines in arts, culture and entertainment.

Mark Lawson meets the people who have made headlines in the world of arts and entertainment in 2013, including David Tennant, Helen Mirren and Stephen Frears.

In new interviews, Mark Lawson talks to the people who have had exceptional years in the world of arts, culture and entertainment in 2013, in the second of two special programmes.

David Tennant talks about his roles in the two most highly anticipated television events of 2013 - the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special and the final episode of Broadchurch. He discusses which accent he decided on for his roles in The Escape Artist, the Politician's Husband and to play Shakespeare's Richard II on stage.

Dame Helen Mirren, who won the Evening Standard Best Actress award for her role in The Audience, talks about playing Queen Elizabeth II for the second time.

Olivia Colman remembers the night she won two Bafta Awards, for Accused and Twenty Twelve, and reveals her strategies for avoiding unwanted attention from the paparazzi.

Stephen Frears talks about working with Judi Dench and Steve Coogan on his hit film Philomena and why he is drawn to make films about real people and events.

Director Clio Barnard won critical acclaim for her second film The Selfish Giant, an adaptation of an Oscar Wilde fairy tale. She discusses taking The Selfish Giant to the Cannes Film Festival and explains why she will always work with children and animals.

Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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