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Mary Ann Sieghart

Grayson Perry

Emma Rice

Alice Coote

Kelley Swain

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry

Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry

02/05/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain with Mary Ann Sieghart.

Cultural discussion show. Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain discuss gender and art with Mary Ann Sieghart.

On Start the Week Grayson Perry discusses the concept of masculinity in modern Britain with Mary Ann Sieghart. The new artistic director at the Globe Theatre, Emma Rice, explains how she is playing with gender in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, and the celebrated mezzo-soprano Alice Coote talks of her career in 'breeches', singing the male role. The former artists' model, Kelley Swain reveals what it's like being the object of a work of art.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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