Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Front Row

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

BBC Radio 4 LW

John Wilson

John Whitely

Jeff Beck

Damian Barr

Dymphna Flynn

Front Row: Folio Prize winner, Cézanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck

Folio Prize winner, Cézanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck

10/03/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Folio Prize winner, Cézanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck

Guitarist Jeff Beck, plus Damian Barr on the appeal of the gay best friend in movies.

With John Wilson. Folio Prize winner announced, Cezanne and the Modern at the Ashmolean, guitarist Jeff Beck, and Damian Barr on the appeal of the gay best friend in movies.

With John Wilson. We announce the winner of the inaugural Folio Prize and speak to her/him live from the ceremony in London. The £40,000 prize celebrates the best English-language fiction from around the world, regardless of form, genre, or the author's country of origin.

Cézanne and the Modern is a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, featuring the collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman. They began collecting in 1945 with a work by Jacques Lipchitz and it now includes a matchless group of paintings and watercolours by Paul Cézanne, as well as paintings and sculptures by artists including Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and Edgar Degas. Curator John Whitely talks to John Wilson about the collection.

John also talks to guitar hero Jeff Beck about a 50 year career that has seen him play with the likes of The Yardbirds, David Bowie, Eric Clapton and Morrissey.

And as a new teen movie the GBF (Gay Best Friend) is about to open, writer Damian Barr looks at the appeal of the gay best friend in film.

Producer Dymphna Flynn.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Folio Prize winner, Cézanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4