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Front Row: Venus in Fur; Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; The Normal Heart; Michael Cunningham

Venus in Fur; Gurpreet Kaur Bhattii; The Normal Heart; Michael Cunningham

27/05/2014

Venus in Fur; Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; The Normal Heart; Michael Cunningham

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Venus in Fur; Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; The Normal Heart; Michael Cunningham

Kirsty Lang reviews Polanski's Venus in Fur; plus Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti.

Kirsty Lang reviews Venus in Fur, the new film from Roman Polanski, and interviews novelist Michael Cunningham and Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti.

Kirsty Lang discusses Venus in Fur, the new film by Roman Polanksi; playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, whose 2001 play Bezhti was pulled from theatres after rioting, on her new work for the Birmingham Rep Theatre - Khandan - about cultural clashes in a modern Sikh family; Boyd Hilton reviews HBO / Sky Atlantic drama The Normal Heart, starring Julia Roberts as a doctor dealing with the AIDs crisis in 80s New York; and author Michael Cunningham (The Hours), who has based the characters in his new novel The Snow Queen on real-life friends.

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