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Front Row: Ralph Fiennes on Richard III, Elvis & Nixon, Refugee fiction, Amjad Sabri

Ralph Fiennes on Richard III, Elvis and Nixon, Refugee fiction

22/06/2016

Ralph Fiennes on Richard III, Elvis & Nixon, Refugee fiction, Amjad Sabri

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ralph Fiennes on Richard III, Elvis & Nixon, Refugee fiction, Amjad Sabri

Ralph Fiennes and director Rupert Goold discuss their new production of Richard III.

Ralph Fiennes and director Rupert Goold on Richard III; Elvis & Nixon, starring Kevin Spacey; Marina Lewycka and Hassan Abdulrazzak on refugee fiction; Amjad Sabri remembered.

Ralph Fiennes and director Rupert Goold discuss their new production of Shakespeare's Richard III at the Almeida Theatre in London.

Kevin Spacey stars as the former US president in the new film Elvis & Nixon, which focuses on the untold real-life story of the meeting between the two men. Michael Carlson reviews.

Author Marina Lewycka and playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak join Samira to discuss the art of writing fiction about the refugee experience. As refugees once themselves, both have contributed to an anthology of writing called A Country of Refuge, being published to coincide with Refugee Week.

One of Pakistan's most famous qawwali singers Amjad Sabri has been killed today in Karachi. Ziad Zafar joins us to explain Sabri's place in Pakistani culture and what may have led to his death.

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