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Front Row: Richard Hamilton; The Monuments Men; Enrique Iglesias; Tennessee Williams's hotel plays

Richard Hamilton; The Monuments Men; Enrique Iglesias; Tennessee Williams's hotel plays

11/02/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Richard Hamilton; The Monuments Men; Enrique Iglesias; Tennessee Williams's hotel plays

John Wilson visits a new exhibition of work by the late Richard Hamilton at Tate Modern.

Arts news. Richard Hamilton's work at Tate Modern and ICA; The Monuments Men reviewed; Tennessee Williams's hotel plays; Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias.

With John Wilson.

George Clooney directs and stars in The Monuments Men, a drama set in the Second World War. Based on a true story, he plays a member of a group of curators and scholars attempting to rescue art works from the Nazis. The film co-stars Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and John Goodman. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews for Front Row.

Tennessee Williams spent much of his later life living in hotel rooms, inspiring his 'hotel plays' which open this week in performance at London's Langham Hotel. John meets the director, set designer and cast from Defibrillator theatre to talk about the logistics of staging three plays in three different rooms on three floors of the grand hotel.

Grammy-winning singer songwriter Enrique Iglesias began his career as a Spanish language artist before crossing over to the English market with hits like Bailamos and the global number one single Hero. Now releasing his tenth album, he talks to John about keeping his record contract secret from his father Julio Iglesias, and why he sees concern over sexualised music videos as hypocritical.

Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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