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Front Row: The Sea; Keith Huff; Patience Agbabi; Banksy art

The Sea; Keith Huff; Patience Agbabi

16/04/2014

The Sea; Keith Huff; Patience Agbabi; Banksy art

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Sea; Keith Huff; Patience Agbabi; Banksy art

Kirsty Lang discusses the new film adaptation of John Banville's novel The Sea.

Arts news. Kirsty Lang discusses the new film adaptation of John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning novel The Sea. Plus House of Cards writer Keith Huff on his play A Steady Rain.

Kirsty Lang discusses a new film adaptation of John Banville's Man Booker prize winning novel The Sea. With Rachel Cooke.

House of Cards writer Keith Huff talks about his play A Steady Rain. A hit on Broadway in 2009 starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, it receives its UK premiere at the Theatre Royal Bath.

Is it ok to steal a Banksy? Lawyer Karen Sanig, from Mischon de Reya, offers legal advice.

Poet Patience Agbabi on her new collection Telling Tales, an updating of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with the pilgrims travelling on a Routemaster bus.

And TV critic Boyd Hilton reviews Trying Again, the new sitcom from Thick of It duo Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell, about a couple stuggling after an affair.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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