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Front Row: Grimsby, Dominic Dromgoole, Poems that Make Grown Women Cry

Grimsby, Dominic Dromgoole, Poems to Make Grown Women Cry

24/02/2016

Grimsby, Dominic Dromgoole, Poems that Make Grown Women Cry

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Grimsby, Dominic Dromgoole, Poems that Make Grown Women Cry

Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Grimsby reviewed and the Globe theatre's Dominic Dromgoole.

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Grimsby reviewed and Shakespeare's Globe's outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole.

Sacha Baron Cohen plays a football hooligan and Mark Strong his brother, a top spy, in the new action comedy film Grimsby. Quentin Cooper reviews.

Shakespeare's Globe's outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole looks back over his tenure and discusses his final production, The Tempest.

After Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, Anthony Holden has now collected Poems That Make Grown Women Cry. In it, women from various walks of life select poems that move them to tears, and explain why. Holden discusses the similarities and differences between the two volumes, and is joined by Joan Bakewell and Elif Shafak who reveal their choices.

Mick Herron discusses his new novel Real Tigers, a thriller which takes place behind the scenes at Britain's Security Service.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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