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Front Row: PD James Remembered; William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling

William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling; Mikhail Baryshnikov

27/11/2014

PD James Remembered; William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, PD James Remembered; William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling

PD James remembered; William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling.

Ruth Rendell remembers PD James; the contenders for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and news of the winner; and Maggi Hambling on her new National Gallery exhibition.

Front Row pays tribute the writer PD James who has died aged 94. Fellow crime writer and friend Ruth Rendell reflects on James's life and work and, in a clip from our archive, James describes the four key motives for murder in a good crime story.

Rugby player Gareth Thomas, footballer Bobby Moore and ice skater John Curry are among the subjects of the books shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, the longest-running prize for sports writing. At the awards ceremony, John Wilson talks to the seven shortlisted authors and speaks to the winner of the £26,000 prize.

Maggi Hambling, who was the National Gallery's very first artist in residence in 1980, has returned to the gallery with "Walls of Water" a new exhibition of her paintings of the sea. She talks to John Wilson about painting raging storms, her tribute to Amy Winehouse and why, in her late sixties, she feels much younger than she used to.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Ellie Bury.

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