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Kit de Waal

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Front Row: Levi David Addai, Kit de Waal, Flaming June, The art of fireworks.

Levi David Addai, Kit de Waal, Flaming June, The art of fireworks.

02/11/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Levi David Addai, Kit de Waal, Flaming June, The art of fireworks.

Our Loved Boy, Flaming June returns home, Kit de Waal's unread classic, fireworks as art.

Levi David Addai on Our Loved Boy, a new drama about the murder of Damilola Taylor. Plus Flaming June returns home, and Kit de Waal confesses to a classic book she hasn't read.

The murder of Damilola Taylor in 2000, came to symbolise youth crime in Britain and brought knife attacks into the public consciousness. Writer Levi David Addai explains why he chose to tells the story of the schoolboy's death from the family's point of view in new drama Our Loved Boy. 

Frederick, Lord Leighton's Flaming June, one of the most famous works of nineteenth-century British art, returns to the house in which it was painted. We speak to the curator at Leighton House Museum Daniel Robbins and art dealer Rupert Mass whose father briefly owned the work.

For Love to Read, the BBC season celebrating the joy of books, author Kit de Waal confesses to a classic book she hasn't read - George Orwell's caustic satire of literary life, Keep the Aspidistra Flying - and reads it especially for Front Row. 

Between Diwali and Bonfire Night the writer on contemporary art Louisa Buck traces the history of fireworks, reveals why they are so attractive to artists and argues they are the most democratic of all art forms.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Jack Soper.

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