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Front Row: Kate Winslet in Triple 9, Nell Gwynn, One Child

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10/02/2016

Kate Winslet in Triple 9, Nell Gwynn, One Child

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kate Winslet in Triple 9, Nell Gwynn, One Child

Kate Winslet talks to John Wilson about her role as a mafia villain in new film Triple 9.

Arts news with John Wilson, including Kate Winslet on her role as a mafia villain in new heist film Triple 9 and Jessica Swale, the writer of a new play about Nell Gwynn.

Kate Winslet discusses her role as a Russian-Israeli mafia villain in new heist film Triple 9, starring Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

As a new play about Nell Gwynn opens in the West End, John talks to the playwright Jessica Swale and Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford, who is a direct descendant of Charles II and Nell Gwynn and has written a biography of the Restoration actress. 

Writer Guy Hibbert discusses his new TV series One Child, a political thriller set in China that addresses political corruption and the one-child policy.

And as new rules for the acceptance speeches by the winners of the forthcoming Oscars are announced, film critic Jason Solomons considers the likely outcome.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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