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Front Row: Ewan McGregor, Upstart Crow, Katie Paterson, Frankenstein ballet

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05/05/2016

Ewan McGregor, Upstart Crow, Katie Paterson, Frankenstein ballet

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ewan McGregor, Upstart Crow, Katie Paterson, Frankenstein ballet

Kirsty Lang talks to Ewan McGregor, and Ben Elton writes a TV a comedy about Shakespeare.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Kirsty Lang talks to Ewan McGregor about Our Kind of Traitor, and Ben Elton returns to TV with a comedy starring David Mitchell as Shakespeare.

Ewan McGregor stars in Our Kind of Traitor, based on a John Le Carré novel. The plot follows a couple on holiday in Marrakech who strike up a friendship with a Russian man who turns out to be a mafia kingpin. Ewan McGregor describes how the author visited the set and gave his blessing to play his character as a Scot.

Upstart Crow sees the comedic quill of Blackadder writer Ben Elton return to the Elizabethan era. Starring David Mitchell this new BBC comedy follows William Shakespeare as he tries in vain to write some of his most famous works. Natalie Haynes reviews.

Artist Katie Paterson is busy right now with work showing at The Lowry and Somerset House, and a new public artwork called Hollow, made from 10,000 tree samples from across the world, about to be unveiled at the University of Bristol. She discusses her fascination with capturing time, distance, and space. 

Liam Scarlett is Artist in Residence at The Royal Ballet, and his latest work is a brand new ballet based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He discusses what drew him to the gothic novel, and reveals how he choreographed such a complex emotional story to a brand new score by Lowell Liebermann.


Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Angie Nehring.

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