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Front Row: David Morrissey, Shakespeare comedy Bill, A Syrian Love Story

David Morrissey, Shakespeare comedy Bill, A Syrian Love Story

17/09/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, David Morrissey, Shakespeare comedy Bill, A Syrian Love Story

David Morrissey in Martin McDonagh's new play Hangmen. John Wilson presents.

Arts news with John Wilson, including David Morrissey in new play Hangmen and the Shakespeare comedy Bill from the Horrible Histories duo Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond.

David Morrissey discusses his new role in Martin McDonagh's new play Hangmen, in which he plays the 'second-best hangman in Britain', reacting to a changing world on the day that capital punishment is abolished.

Horrible Histories duo Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond discuss thier latest project, Bill, a British family adventure-comedy film dealing with the 'lost years' of William shakespeare.

A Syrian Love story, which won the Grand Jury prize for best documentary at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, explores the lives of Syrian political dissidents who are forced to flee Syria with their family and become refugees in France. Jenny McCartney reviews.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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