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Front Row: Sarah Waters; Racial Diversity in the Arts; Mike Scott of the Waterboys; Museums on Film

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08/12/2014

Sarah Waters; Racial Diversity in the Arts; Mike Scott of the Waterboys; Museums on Film

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Sarah Waters; Racial Diversity in the Arts; Mike Scott of the Waterboys; Museums on Film

Sarah Waters, racial diversity in the arts, Mike Scott and museums on film.

Mike Scott of the Waterboys on their new album, author Sarah Waters on writing a ghost story for the stage, and two new documentaries go behind the scenes in world class museums.

Author Sarah Waters has followed her gothic novel The Little Stranger with her first play which is also a ghost story that aims to spook audiences. She discusses working with experimental theatre-maker Christopher Green to devise a play in which all is not as it seems.

Mike Scott of The Waterboys discusses the band's new album Modern Blues, and explains why it was important for the band to record it in Nashville.

Dawn Walton, Director of Eclipse Theatre Company and Tom Morris, Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic, give their response to today's speech by Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England, in which he urges racial diversity and inclusion across the board in arts institutions.

Two new documentaries lift the lid on the action behind the scenes at two of the world's most well-known art museums - the National Gallery in London and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Sarah Crompton asks whether museums and galleries make good subjects for films.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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