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Front Row: Helen Mirren, Cyprus Avenue and X, Barrie Rutter, Jem Lester

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08/04/2016

Helen Mirren, Cyprus Avenue and X, Barrie Rutter, Jem Lester

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Helen Mirren, Cyprus Avenue and X, Barrie Rutter, Jem Lester

News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music.

Helen Mirren on her thriller Eye in the Sky, plus reviews of X and Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court, Barrie Rutter on Falstaff, and the debut novel from British writer Jem Lester.

Helen Mirren talks about her role as a military intelligence officer in a new thriller about drone warfare, Eye in the Sky.

Two new plays opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London this week: Alistair McDowall's X, set on Pluto and David Ireland's Cyprus Avenue, set in Belfast. In both locations life's certainties unravel. Ian Shuttleworth, who grew up close to Cyprus Avenue, reviews.

Barrie Rutter, founder of Northern Broadsides theatre company, chooses the character of Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, as part of our Shakespeare's People series.

Jem Lester's debut novel Shtum focuses on 10-year-old Jonah who is severely autistic and told from the perspective of his struggling, alcoholic father. Jem, who has an autistic son, explains why he put his own experience in a work of fiction.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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