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Front Row: Spooks, Meklit, Christopher Hope, The Spalding Suite

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05/05/2015

Spooks, Meklit, Christopher Hope, The Spalding Suite

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Spooks, Meklit, Christopher Hope, The Spalding Suite

Spooks moving to the big screen and singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero. With Kirsty Lang.

Spooks moving to the big screen, singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero, basketball drama in The Spalding Suite, artist Katrina Palmer and novelist Christopher Hope. With Kirsty Lang.

Spooks: The Greater Good brings the popular TV spy thriller series which ended in 2011 to the big screen with Kit Harington and Peter Firth. Will the move work? Antonia Quirke reviews. 

Ethiopian American singer songwriter Meklit Hadero tells Kirsty about her second album We Are Alive and explains how it was influenced by a project to bring the nations of the Nile Basin together through music.

The theatre director Benji Reid, and the writer and poet Inua Ellams, discuss their new show, The Spalding Suite. Set in the world of British basketball, it uses live beatboxing, hip-hop, movement, and poetry.

The South African novelist Christopher Hope on his latest book, Jimfish, which - inspired by Voltaire's Candide - tells the story of an unusual young man's encounters with some of the most notorious tyrants of the 20th century.

And a piece of audio art will be broadcast tonight on Radio 4. The piece, The Quarryman's Daughters, was commissioned from artist Katrina Palmer by the BBC and Artangel. She discusses the differences between creating art for a gallery and for radio.

Presenter: Sarah Johnson
Producer: Kirsty Lang.

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