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Front Row: Joan Baez, BBC National Short Story award shortlist, Hamlet

Joan Baez, BBC National Short Story award shortlist, Hamlet

17/09/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Joan Baez, BBC National Short Story award shortlist, Hamlet

John Wilson talks to singer Joan Baez and Hollywood screenwriter James Schamus.

John Wilson talks to Joan Baez and screenwriter James Schamus, Alan Yentob announces the BBC National Short Story Award shortlist, and Susannah Clapp reviews Maxine Peak in Hamlet.

With John Wilson. The singing legend with the bell-like voice, Joan Baez, about to perform at the Royal Festival Hall, talks about her extraordinary life and musical career.

Alan Yentob announces the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2014, and James Schamus - the writer and producer whose films include Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation - talks about the future of Hollywood, ahead of his opening talk for the BAFTA Screenwriting Lectures Series.

Plus, Susannah Clapp reviews Maxine Peake as Hamlet at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre.

Presenter : John Wilson
Producer : Dymphna Flynn
Image Credit: Marina Chavez.

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