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Front Row: Ron Howard on The Beatles, Sharon Olds, Tom Ellis, Two Women

Ron Howard on The Beatles, Sharon Olds, Tom Ellis, Two Women

14/09/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ron Howard on The Beatles, Sharon Olds, Tom Ellis, Two Women

Director Ron Howard discusses his documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.

Director Ron Howard on his documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, plus poet Sharon Olds, artist Tom Ellis at the Wallace Collection and Ralph Fiennes' film Two Women reviewed.

Director Ron Howard discusses his new documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, which goes behind the scenes with John, Paul, George and Ringo, from The Cavern Club to the height of Beatlemania in the years 1962-66.

The American poet Sharon Olds has won the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and most recently the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award. She talks to Kirsty Lang about her new collection, Odes.

Tom Ellis is an artist whose work includes paintings and functionless furniture which are often displayed together. For the past four years he has drawn inspiration from the eclectic Wallace Collection in London which shows its paintings, furniture, and porcelain in the townhouse of its former owners, Sir Richard and Lady Wallace. He explains how this has complemented his work.

Ralph Fiennes reportedly spent two months living in Moscow learning Russian to prepare for his role in the costume drama Two Women. Based on Ivan Turgenev's 1854 play A Month in The Country, the film sees Fiennes act and deliver lines entirely in Russian, alongside a Russian-speaking cast. Critic and stand-up comedian Viv Groskop reviews. 

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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