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Front Row: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Mike Nicol, Song of the Sea, Camelot

Oliver Hirschbiegel, Mike Nicol, Song of the Sea, Camelot

09/07/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Mike Nicol, Song of the Sea, Camelot

Film director Oliver Hirschbiegel, Irish animation Song of the Sea and author Mike Nicol.

Oliver Hirschbiegel on his film 13 Minutes, a theatrical retelling of the Arthurian legend Camelot on the streets of Sheffield, writer Mike Nicol, Irish animation Song of the Sea.

Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of the Oscar nominated film Downfall - about Hitler's final days - on returning to the Third Reich for 13 Minutes, a new film about the failed assassin Georg Elser, who almost blew up the Fuhrer in 1939. 

Song of the Sea is an Irish film that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The traditionally animated film is inspired by Irish folk tales and stories of mythical sea creatures, the Selkies. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews. 

Author Mike Nicol on his latest novel Power Play, a tale of gang warfare on the Cape Flats of South Africa, with a plot based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. 

Camelot: The Shining City is a retelling of the Arthurian legend in which a future divided England is united by new leader. Director Alan Lane and writer James Phillips discuss their play which begins in Sheffield's Crucible theatre and then spills out onto the streets of the steel city.

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