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Front Row: Ridley Scott, Mark Wigglesworth, Ceramics in Stoke

Ridley Scott, Mark Wigglesworth, Ceramics in Stoke

25/09/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ridley Scott, Mark Wigglesworth, Ceramics in Stoke

Ridley Scott on The Martian, ENO's Mark Wigglesworth, and ceramics in Stoke.

Arts news. Director Ridley Scott discusses his new film The Martian, ENO's Mark Wigglesworth on the new season, plus a report on the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent.

Director Ridley Scott discusses his latest film The Martian, starring Matt Damon who has to fend for himself on the red planet when he's left for dead by his colleagues.

English National Opera's new Music Director Mark Wigglesworth discusses the the ENO's new season which opens with Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Ceramics, once seen as a rather dusty area of the arts, have been rising in popularity. As the British Ceramics Biennial opens in Stoke-On-Trent, its co-founder, Barney Hare Duke, and Janet Barnes - Chief Executive of York Museums Trust, which recently opened a Centre of Ceramic Art - discuss the ceramics revival.

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Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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