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Front Row: Matisse; Locke; Val McDermid

Matisse; Locke; Val McDermid

14/04/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Matisse; Locke; Val McDermid

Biographer Hilary Spurling and curator Nicholas Cullinan discuss Henri Matisse's Cut-Outs.

Arts news. Biographer Hilary Spurling and curator Nicholas Cullinan discuss Henri Matisse's Cut-Outs; review of Locke starring Tom Hardy; Val McDermid on updating Jane Austen.

John Wilson discusses Tate Modern's Matisse: The Cut-Outs with Matisse biographer Hilary Spurling and curator Nicholas Cullinan. Also in the programme: Val McDermid is renowned as a crime-writer, but Jane Austen isn't - so what attracted Val to the idea of updating Northanger Abbey?

Plus reviews of the film Locke, starring Tom Hardy - and of two new Broadway musicals: Woody Allen's stage version of his film Bullets Over Broadway, and a new show about Billie Holiday, Lady Day.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Rebecca Nicholson.

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