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Front Row: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer, Vikram Seth, The Last Panthers

Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer, Vikram Seth, The Last Panthers

12/11/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer, Vikram Seth, The Last Panthers

A look at Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer, at Buckingham Palace. Samira Ahmed presents

Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer at Buckingham Palace, Vikram Seth on his Collected Poems and The Last Panthers reviewed.

Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer at The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace is a new exhibition of masterpieces from the Royal Collection. Curator Desmond Shawe-Taylor explains the background to the show which includes works by Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch, and which features Johannes Vermeer's A Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman, The Music Lesson (above).

Vikram Seth, author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy, discusses his substantial new publication, Collected Poems.

Samantha Morton and John Hurt star in the new TV drama series The Last Panthers, based on a real-life network of diamond thieves across Europe. Crime novelist Denise Mina reviews.

Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas - famous for his complex microtonal scores - discusses his bold new work Morgen und Abend for the Royal Opera House, featuring Out of Africa Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

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Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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