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Front Row: Cilla; Will and Kate on stage; Tudor portraits; Ted Hughes' animal poems

Cilla; Will and Kate on stage; Tudor portraits; Ted Hughes' animal poems

11/09/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Cilla; Will and Kate on stage; Tudor portraits; Ted Hughes' animal poems

Arts news with Razia Iqbal, including a review of Sheridan Smith as Cilla Black.

A review of Sheridan Smith as Cilla Black, an interview with 'Will' and 'Kate', a new exhibition of Tudor portraits and artefacts, and Alice Oswald on Ted Hughes' animal poems.

Including a review of Sheridan Smith as Cilla Black in a new three part series about the singer's early career, and an interview with actors Oliver Chris and Lydia Wilson as they return to their roles as Will and Kate in Mike Bartlett's King Charles III. Also on the programme, historian Jessie Childs reviews a new exhibition of Tudor portraiture and artefacts at the National Portrait Gallery, and poet Alice Oswald discusses the animal poetry of Ted Hughes.

Presenter: Razia Iqbal
Producer: Ellie Bury.

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