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Front Row: A Hologram For The King, Running Wild, Brigitte Fassbaender, Going Forward

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19/05/2016

A Hologram For The King, Running Wild, Brigitte Fassbaender, Going Forward

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, A Hologram For The King, Running Wild, Brigitte Fassbaender, Going Forward

A review of Tom Hanks as a stressed executive in Saudi Arabia in A Hologram For The King.

Tom Hanks stars as a stressed executive trying to land an IT deal in Saudi Arabia, in A Hologram For The King. And Jo Brand returns as nurse Kim Wilde in Going Forward.

In A Hologram For The King, Tom Hanks stars as a stressed-out executive with problems at home, trying to land an IT deal with the King of Saudi Arabia. Sue Turton, a former correspondent with Al Jazeera and Channel Four, assesses whether the film captures the realities of doing business in the region.

Michael Morpurgo's book Running Wild, about a young boy's adventures lost in the Indonesian jungle, has been brought to life by Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London. Morpurgo, the play's director Timothy Sheader, and Toby Olie - designer of many of the animal puppets - discuss the challenges of the production.

Jo Brand returns as nurse Kim Wilde in Going Forward, a brand-new three-part TV comedy series that turns the spotlight on domiciliary care. It's a spin-off series of the critically acclaimed Getting On. Dreda Say Mitchell reviews.

After winning the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Opera Awards on Sunday, the German mezzo-soprano opera singer and director Brigitte Fassbaender discusses the difference between singing a Strauss opera and Schubert's lieder, and reveals how despite all her years of performing and directing, she still suffers from dreadful nerves.

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