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Front Row: Kate Winslet; The Trip to Italy; Timur Vermes; Lord of the Flies

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02/04/2014

Kate Winslet; The Trip to Italy; Timur Vermes; Lord of the Flies

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kate Winslet; The Trip to Italy; Timur Vermes; Lord of the Flies

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Kate Winslet on playing an arch villain in Divergent

Kate Winslet on playing an arch villain in new film Divergent; author Timur Vermes about his satire featuring with Hitler as a stand-up; Lord of the Flies as a dance production.

On Front Row tonight Kirsty Lang talks to Kate Winslet about her new film Divergent - aimed at young adults she plays an arch villain in a dystopian future and she explains why making the film made her feel old; and Kirsty meets German author Timur Vermes who's written a best-selling satire depicting Hitler as a present day celebrity after awakening from a 66-year sleep in 2011.

There's a review of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's new tv series The Trip to Italy and we go backstage at rehearsals for Matthew Bourne's new dance production of Lord of the Flies in Salford.

Plus - as a rail design exhibition opens at the National Railway Museum in York and RIBA shortlists entrants in their aesthetic overhead line structures competition, we consider the design of rail-gantries past and present.

Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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