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Front Row: Ashley Pharoah, Novels in verse, Chris Watson

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Ashley Pharoah, Novels in verse, Chris Watson

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ashley Pharoah, Novels in verse, Chris Watson

Ashley Pharoah's new TV drama plus writing novels in verse, and sound artist Chris Watson.

Ashley Pharoah on his new BBC drama. Plus Ros Barber and Sarah Crossan discuss writing novels in verse and sound artist Chris Watson talks about his new project, The Town Moor.

Ashley Pharoah, writer of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, discusses his latest creation for BBC TV - The Living and the Dead. Set in rural Somerset in 1894, this supernatural drama follows Nathan Appleby, a reluctant gentleman farmer who is obsessed with proving the existence of the afterlife, as he investigates hauntings, paranormal happenings and ghostly visitations.

Writer Sarah Crossan has won the 2016 Bookseller YA prize for her novel One. It's the story of conjoined twins, written in verse. Ros Barber's debut novel The Marlowe Papers is a fictional account of the life of Christopher Marlowe, also written in verse. They talk to Kirsty about writing novels which take the form of series of poems.

Sound artist Chris Watson, who has worked alongside David Attenborough on many of his BBC nature series, discusses his new project The Town Moor - A Portrait in Sound. Over the course of a year he documented the sounds of the ancient and vast grazing common at the heart of Newcastle, and will be presenting the audio portrait as a 'dark' cinema experience at the Tyneside Cinema.


Presenter: Kirsty Lang 
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

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