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Front Row: National Gallery Soundscapes, Caine Prize winner, Agent Carter

National Gallery Soundscapes, Caine Prize winner, Agent Carter

07/07/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, National Gallery Soundscapes, Caine Prize winner, Agent Carter

Samira Ahmed hears about the new Soundscapes exhibition at the National Gallery.

Arts news with Samira Ahmed. Including the National Gallery Soundscapes, the Caine Prize for African Writing winner, a review of Agent Carter and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Soundscapes, a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London, presents six new music and sound installations the Gallery has commissioned to accompany individual works of art from its permanent collection. Samira Ahmed hears from contributing artists Nico Muhly, Susan Philipsz and George Miller.

The Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has just been announced as the 2015 winner of The Caine Prize for African Writing. She talks about her winning story The Sack.

Naomi Alderman reviews Marvel's Agent Carter, a TV spin-off of Marvel's Captain America starring Hayley Atwell.

Plus playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz speaks to Samira about The Invisible, her new play examining the human impact of cuts to the legal aid system.

Presenter : Samira Ahmed
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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