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Free Thinking: Joseph Crawhall, Madame Bovary, The James Plays

Joseph Crawhall, Madame Bovary, The James Plays

04/02/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Joseph Crawhall, Madame Bovary, The James Plays

Anne McElvoy profiles painter Joseph Crawhall. Plus Madame Bovary and The James Plays.

Anne McElvoy presents. With a discussion about painter Joseph Crawhall, director Gemma Bodinetz on staging a comic version of Madame Bovary, and Kylie Murray on The James Plays.

Anne McElvoy profiles the painter Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913). Born in Northumberland, he exhibited alongside Degas and Whistler and has been credited as the leader of the young radical Scottish painters The Glasgow Boys. His father was also an artist who published "A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs Collected by Joseph Crawhall" in 1888 - a pictorial book illustrating the lyrics and music with woodcuts. Anne will be joined in her quest by the director of the Fleming Collection in London, James Knox, where a new Crawhall show has opened and by the art critic, Bill Feaver.

Anne will also be hearing from the director, Gemma Bodinetz who with Peepolykus is staging a comic version of Madame Bovary at the Liverpool Everyman and from Laurie Sansom, who's directing a revival of Rona Munro's acclaimed trilogy of James plays. And in the week that sees the publication of a life of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Matthew Parris discusses the art of political biography.

Joseph Crawhall: Masterworks from The Burrell Collection which runs from 4 February - 12 March 2016 is on at the The Fleming Collection in London and it's the first time in 25 years that an exhibition of his his works is on show in London.

Rona Munro's James Plays are on at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre from February 3rd to 13th and then the UK and international tour stops in Glasgow, Inverness, Newcastle, Salford, Birmingham, Leicester and Plymouth

Madame Bovary performed by Peepolykus is touring. Liverpool Everyman 5th to 27th February and then on to the Nuffield Theatre Southampton, Bristol Old Vic, Royal & Derngate, Northampton.

Producer: Zahid Warley

Image Credit: The Flower Shop, by Joseph Crawhall c.1894-1900. The Burrell Collection (c) CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

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