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Front Row: Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts

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01/07/2014

Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts

Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts.

Pet Shop Boys discuss their Alan Turing BBC Prom, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera on his new fiction Noontide Toll, ENO's Artistic Director John Berry.

Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss their BBC late-night Prom which includes the world premiere of A Man From the Future, about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing; Private Eye editor Ian Hislop reviews last night's opening of the Richard Bean play Great Britain starring Billie Piper, which deals with Leveson and the phone-hacking affair; English National Opera's Artistic Director John Berry on today's announcement of Arts Council cuts in funding; and Romesh Gunesekera on Noontide Toll, his new collection of related stories which deal with the effects of Sri Lanka's civil war.

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