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Front Row: Secret in Their Eyes, Katie Mitchell, AB Yehoshua, Stutterer

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22/02/2016

Secret in Their Eyes, Katie Mitchell, AB Yehoshua, Stutterer

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Secret in Their Eyes, Katie Mitchell, AB Yehoshua, Stutterer

Katie Mitchell on directing Cleansed, Secret in Their Eyes review, and AB Yehoshua's novel

Katie Mitchell directs Sarah Kane's Cleansed, Secret In Their Eyes reviewed, AB Yehoshua's latest novel, and Ben Cleary on his Oscar-nominated short film Stutterer.

Briony Hanson reviews Secret in their Eyes, an adaptation of an Oscar-winning Argentine thriller starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman.

Katie Mitchell discusses her National Theatre production of Sarah Kane's play Cleansed in which one character has his tongue cut out and his hands put in a shredder. But it is, Mitchell insists, really about love.

The short film Stutterer, about a man with a severe stammer, has been nominated for this weekend's Oscars. Ben Cleary, the writer, director and editor of the 12-minute film, discusses the challenges he faced as a first-time filmmaker.

AB Yehoshua is an outspoken author who's been called the Israeli Faulkner. His latest book, The Extra, steps into the head and heart of a woman in her 40s, a harpist, who has decided not to have children. What is the impact on her, her family - and perhaps even her country?

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Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

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