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Front Row: The Riot Club; Ming at the British Museum; percussionist Colin Currie

The Riot Club; writer Enda Walsh; percussionist Colin Currie

15/09/2014

The Riot Club; Ming at the British Museum; percussionist Colin Currie

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Riot Club; Ming at the British Museum; percussionist Colin Currie

Arts news. John Wilson reviews The Riot Club, based on Laura Wade's play Posh.

John Wilson reviews The Riot Club based on Laura Wade's play Posh, gets a tour of the Ming dynasty exhibition at the British Museum, and speaks to percussionist Colin Currie.

The Riot Club, whose cast includes Max Irons and Jessica Brown Findlay, is a film based on Laura Wade's play Posh, about a fictional elite Oxford University male members club. Rachel Cooke reviews.

John Wilson tours the 15th Century Ming treasures at the British Museum's new exhibition - Ming: 50 years that changed China. With curator Jessica Harrison-Hall.

One of the world's top percussionists, Colin Currie, talks about becoming a human drum kit for the first night of Metal, Wood, Skin: his four month long festival at the Royal Festival Hall.

And Viv Groskop on the return of ITV's Downton Abbey.

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