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Front Row: Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Eimear McBride, Roy Williams, New Prince Albums

Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Eimear McBride, Roy Williams, New Prince Albums

26/09/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Eimear McBride, Roy Williams, New Prince Albums

Kirsty Lang and Craig Clunas review Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace.

Kirsty Lang with Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Roy Williams on updating Sophocles, Eimear McBride on the stage version of her novel, and a review of two new Prince albums.

A new exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace will be his biggest UK show to date, which Craig Clunas reviews with Kirsty Lang. Eimear McBride, who won the Bailey's Women's Prize for her debut novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, and theatre director Annie Ryan discuss adapting McBride's experimental and challenging book for the stage. Playwright Roy Williams talks about putting Sophocles's Greek tragedy Antigone in a contemporary setting, and as Prince releases two new albums on the same day, Matt Thorne asseses whether the Minneapolis singer-songwriter still has the power to thrill and surprise.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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