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Front Row: Loudon Wainwright III, Guardians of the Galaxy, Japanese fiction

Loudon Wainwright, Guardians of the Galaxy, Japanese novels, The art of summer

01/08/2014

Loudon Wainwright III, Guardians of the Galaxy, Japanese fiction

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Loudon Wainwright III, Guardians of the Galaxy, Japanese fiction

Kirsty Lang talks the blues with singer Loudon Wainwright III, father of Rufus and Martha.

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including musician Loudon Wainwright III, Japanese fiction and the new Haruki Murakami novel, and Guardians of the Galaxy reviewed.

Kirsty Lang with the singer Loudon Wainwright III, father of Rufus and Martha, who discusses his latest album Haven't Got the Blues (Yet). It covers subjects including ageing, death, depression - and despair at trying to find a parking space. As best-selling Japanese novelists Haruki Murakami and Kanae Minato publish new novels, we discuss contemporary Japanese fiction. Briony Hanson reviews Guardians of the Galaxy, a Marvel action film about a team of superheroes from the studios that made Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, and - as Northampton Museum and Art Gallery loses its Arts Council accreditation for selling an Egyptian statue in its collection - we discuss what this means for the museum.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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