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Front Row: Gary Kemp; Mr Turner; Kenneth Clark's legacy

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15/05/2014

Gary Kemp; Mr Turner; Kenneth Clark's legacy

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Gary Kemp; Mr Turner; Kenneth Clark's legacy

Gary Kemp on starring in a Lional Bart musical; Rachel Johnson on EM Delafield's classic.

Gary Kemp on Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be; Mr Turner reviewed; Rachel Johnson and Nicola Beauman discuss the charms of Diary Of A Provincial Lady; the legacy of Kenneth Clark.

In tonight's Front Row, John talks to Gary Kemp about his role in a revival of Lionel Bart's East End musical, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be - and Rachel Johnson and Nicola Beauman consider the legacy of Diary Of A Provincial Lady, the hilarious and quintessentially English journal of a fictional country wife, first published in 1930.

Also in the programme: a review from the Cannes Film Festival of Mike Leigh's new film, Mr Turner, which stars Timothy Spall as JMW Turner - and, as a new exhibition opens exploring the impact of art historian Kenneth Clark, one of the most influential twentieth century figures in British art, his biographer, James Stourton, and exhibition curator, Chris Stephens, discuss Clark's role as patron, broadcaster and collector.

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