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Front Row: Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, Maigret with Rowan Atkinson, Sunken Cities

Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, Maigret with Rowan Atkinson, Sunken Cities

22/03/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, Maigret with Rowan Atkinson, Sunken Cities

Glenn Close discusses her role as Norma Desmond in hit musical Sunset Boulevard.

Arts news with John Wilson, including Glenn Close on her role as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard and a review of Rowan Atkinson in ITV's Maigret Sets a Trap.

Glenn Close discusses reprising her role as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Sunset Boulevard on stage at the English National Opera in London.

Rowan Atkinson is the latest actor to take on the part of Inspector Jules Maigret in ITV's new adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel Maigret Sets a Trap. Crime fiction specialist Jeff Park reviews.

As a series of cartoons drawn by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten in the mid-1970s on the wall of a house in London's Denmark St are given listed status, Roger Bowdler, director of listings at Historic England, and Henry Scott-Irvine from the Save Denmark St campaign, assess the importance of the preservation.

Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds, the British Museum's first major show on underwater archaeology, will open in May. As the first of more than 200 discoveries found beneath the sea by the French diver and archaeologist Franck Goddio are installed, John Wilson gets an early preview. Goddio and curator Aurélia Masson-Berghoff introduce him to 'Hapi', a 5.4-metre, 6-tonne red granite statue of the god of fertility.

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Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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