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Front Row: Sunken Cities, Han Kang, Sing Street, Christian Blackshaw

Sunken cities, Han Kang, Sing Street, Christian Blackshaw

17/05/2016

Sunken Cities, Han Kang, Sing Street, Christian Blackshaw

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Sunken Cities, Han Kang, Sing Street, Christian Blackshaw

Sunken Cities, Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Sing Street's John Carney, Christian Blackshaw.

Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds at the British Museum, 2016 Man Booker International winner Han Kang, Sing Street director John Carney and classical pianist Christian Blackshaw.

Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds is the British Museum's first major show on underwater archaeology, and brings together more than 200 discoveries by the French diver and archaeologist Franck Goddio. It tells the tale of two cities, Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, and the relationship between Greece and Egypt. Professor Edith Hall reviews.

John Carney' s film Once won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2007. The writer and director discusses his latest film Sing Street, about a boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s who escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Han Kang, winner of the 2016 Man Booker International prize, talks to John about her novel The Vegetarian. The story centres on an ordinary wife, Yeong-hye and her ordinary husband, whose lives change dramatically when Yeong-hye decides to stop eating meat.

As his Hellens Music Festival prepares to open, the concert pianist Christian Blackshaw explains why less is more when it comes to interpreting the great composers.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Ella-mai Robey.

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