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Front Row: Amy Adams, John Rutter and Tracy Chevalier

Amy Adams, John Rutter and Tracy Chevalier

01/11/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Amy Adams, John Rutter and Tracy Chevalier

Actress Amy Adams on sci-fi film Arrival and composer and conductor John Rutter.

American actress Amy Adams on communicating with aliens in new sci-fi film Arrival, composer and conductor John Rutter, and Tracy Chevalier on finally reading The Secret Garden.

American actress Amy Adams has been nominated for five Oscars and is tipped to receive a sixth for her performance in sci-film Arrival, in which she plays a linguist trying to contact extra-terrestrials. She discusses her latest role and her career which has seen her play a con artist in American Hustle, a Disney princess in Enchanted and an art gallery owner with a sinister ex in Tom Ford's film Nocturnal Animals. 

As part of the BBC's Love to Read season, which celebrates the joy of books, author Tracy Chevalier, best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring, confesses to a classic book she's never read and reads it especially for Front Row. Her choice is Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden. 

The Achates Philanthropy Prize is a new annual award which aims to show that anyone can become a cultural philanthropist. The prize's founder Caroline McCormick talks about how philanthropic gifts to arts organisations - from the smallest to the largest - could be encouraged in the UK. 

Composer and conductor John Rutter talks about his latest work Visions, which is a violin concerto unusually combined with a choir, and why he's made a new recording of his Requiem, which was memorably performed at a service for the 9/11 firefighters in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York. 

Presenter: John Wilson 
Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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