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Front Row: Woolf Works, T C Boyle, Turner Prize shortlist, Andrew Motion, The Tribe

Woolf Works, T C Boyle, Turner Prize shortlist, The Tribe

12/05/2015

Woolf Works, T C Boyle, Turner Prize shortlist, Andrew Motion, The Tribe

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Woolf Works, T C Boyle, Turner Prize shortlist, Andrew Motion, The Tribe

The Virginia Woolf ballet Woolf Works and 2015's Turner Prize shortlist. With Samira Ahmed

The Virginia Woolf ballet Woolf Works, TC Boyle's novel The Harder They Come, 2015's Turner Prize shortlist, new film The Tribe, and Andrew Motion on Hiroshima. With Samira Ahmed.

Virginia Woolf is the subject of a new dance piece Woolf Works, directed by Wayne McGregor for the Royal Ballet, in which each of the three acts is inspired by a different novel - Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves. Sarah Crompton reviews.

T C Boyle discusses his new novel The Harder They Come. Set in the redwood forests of California, and inspired by true events, the book examines the complexity of Americans' relationship to violence and guns.

Some critics suggested that last year's Turner Prize shortlist lacked the calibre of previous years. Will this year's choice meet with greater approval? Louisa Buck joins Samira to discuss the 2015 shortlist of four artists which was announced today.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews a new feature film The Tribe, set in a specialist boarding school for the deaf in Ukraine where violence is a constant threat, which features deaf actors who communicate by signing with no spoken dialogue.

Inspired by an object on display at Imperial War Museum North, Sir Andrew Motion (former Poet Laureate) has created a new poem in response to the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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