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Front Row: Nina Stibbe, Moby, The Nice Guys, Michael Pennington

Nina Stibbe, Moby, Nice Guys, Michael Pennington

31/05/2016

Nina Stibbe, Moby, The Nice Guys, Michael Pennington

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Author Nina Stibbe, musician Moby, The Nice Guys reviewed, Michael Pennington on King Lear

Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina; musician Moby on his memoir; The Nice Guys starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe reviewed; actor Michael Pennington on playing King Lear.

Nina Stibbe's latest novel Paradise Lodge follows Lizzie Vogel as she skips school to work at a residential care home. The book draws on the author's own experience as a teenager and is the second of a trilogy of Lizzie Vogel novels. Nick Hornby's TV adaptation of Stibbe's highly successful first book Love, Nina - based on the author's time as a nanny to a literary north London family - is currently on BBC1 on Saturday nights starring Helena Bonham Carter.

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling team up in The Nice Guys, the neo-noir crime buddy comedy film directed and co-written by Shane Black in which the unlikely pair investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s LA.

Michael Pennington talks to Samira about his new book King Lear in Brooklyn, a combination of an analysis of the play and its characters, alongside his experiences playing the role for the first time - in Brooklyn, New York.

Moby's memoir Porcelain details the electronic musician's life before he released his album Play in 1999 and became an international star. He tells us about what made the club scene in '90s New York so special and how he copes with his critics.

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