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Front Row: James Dean biopic, Mr Foote's Other Leg, Frances Leviston, Disclosure

James Dean biopic, Mr Foote's Other Leg, Frances Leviston, Disclosure

22/09/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, James Dean biopic, Mr Foote's Other Leg, Frances Leviston, Disclosure

Including a review of the James Dean biopic Life. John Wilson presents.

Arts news with John Wilson, including a review of the James Dean biopic Life, Ian Kelly on turning his Samuel Foote biography into a play and Disclosure discussing their new album.

In Anton Corbijn's new film Life, Robert Pattinson plays the Magnum photographer Dennis Stock, sent by LIFE Magazine to spend time with James Dean, a troubled rising star. Antonia Quirke reviews the film which focuses on their difficult relationship and the resulting images.

Ian Kelly, on turning his biography of Samuel Foote into a play, starring Simon Russell Beale as the 18th Century cross-dressing comic actor beset by scandal, and Kelly himself as Prince George.

Guy and Howard Lawrence - the two brothers who make up the dance music duo Disclosure - discuss their new album Caracal, and how soul music and prog rock has influenced them.

Today's shortlisted author for the BBC National Short Story Award is the poet Frances Leviston. Her story is Broderie Anglaise, a tale of tensions between a mother and a daughter over the making of a dress.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Ella-mai Robey.

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