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Front Row: The Glass Menagerie, Conrad Shawcross, Sitcoms at 60

The Glass Menagerie, Conrad Shawcross, Sitcoms at 60

08/08/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Glass Menagerie, Conrad Shawcross, Sitcoms at 60

Samira Ahmed talks to artist Conrad Shawcross and reviews The Glass Menagerie.

Samira Ahmed talks to artist Conrad Shawcross and reviews an Edinburgh Festival production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Plus 60 years of the British sitcom.

As the BBC celebrates 60 years of the British TV sitcom, Samira Ahmed is joined by Citizen Khan creator and star Adil Ray, comedy producer and director Paul Jackson and the BFI's TV consultant Dick Fiddy.

Joyce McMillan reviews an Edinburgh Festival production of Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany and starring Cherry Jones.

The artist Conrad Shawcross on building a vast 50 metre-tall, 20 metre-wide 'architectural intervention' beside a busy main road on the Greenwich Peninsular, encasing a new low-carbon Energy Centre. 

And this week Front Row meets some of the Artists in Residence around the UK who are working in unusual places, starting in Lincoln Cathedral with Toni Watts, a manuscript illuminator. 

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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