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Front Row: Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, Diana Damrau, Noma Dumezweni, Garth Greenwell

Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, Diana Damrau, Garth Greenwell

07/04/2016

Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, Diana Damrau, Noma Dumezweni, Garth Greenwell

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, Diana Damrau, Noma Dumezweni, Garth Greenwell

A review of the Palme d'Or-winning film Dheepan plus German soprano Diana Damrau.

Palme d'Or-winning film Dheepan, German soprano Diana Damrau on Lucia di Lammermoor, Noma Dumezweni in our Shakespeare's People series, and American novelist Garth Greenwell.

Dheepan, the winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of a former Sri Lankan Tamil fighter who flees the civil war to France with a woman and young girl he has never met. After finding work and housing in the suburbs of Pairs this fake family soon find that the violence they have run from is replaced by a new danger. Agnes Poirier reviews the film.

German soprano Diana Damrau discusses her role as Lucia di Lammermoor in a controversial and bloody new production at the Royal Opera House in London.

Noma Dumezweni, who is about to star as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on stage, chooses Paulina from The Winter's Tale as part of our Shakespeare's People series.

US writer Garth Greenwell's debut novel What Belongs to You is the story of a American teacher who becomes obsessed with a sex worker in Bulgaria. Garth talks to Samira about the mixture of fact and fiction in the novel, and his growing up gay in Kentucky and his advocacy of 'queer culture'.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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