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Front Row: Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials

Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, Eric Gill

10/11/2016

Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials

The TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's novel NW, and artist Norman Ackroyd in his studio.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. A review of the TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's novel NW, artist Norman Ackroyd in his studio, listing war memorials, and Rambert's The Creation.

Published in 2012, Zadie Smith's postcode-named novel NW was seen as a lyrical love letter to north-west London. This contemporary tale of the entwined lives of four Londoners has now been adapted for television. Critic Gaylene Gould reviews.

Roger Bowdler of Historic England reveals its mission to get 2,500 war memorials listed by November 2018. He announces 50, and another nine by the controversial sculptor Eric Gill, and discusses what a war memorial can reveal about its location and the people it's dedicated to. 

Norman Ackroyd is widely considered one of Britain's great landscape artists. As a young man in the 1960s he rejected the lure of pop art and devoted his energy to capturing the coastline of Britain in black and white etchings. As his work goes on show in Norman Ackroyd: Just Be A Poet, he invites us to his studio to see how he works.

For its 90th birthday, Rambert is performing Haydn's The Creation with 100 dancers, musicians and singers. Artistic director Mark Baldwin discusses this new work as well as the state of contemporary dance in the UK.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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