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Front Row: Clint Eastwood's Sully, Robert Olen Butler, Roger Law

Clint Eastwood's Sully, Robert Olen Butler, Roger Law

29/11/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Clint Eastwood's Sully, Robert Olen Butler, Roger Law

A review of Clint Eastwood's 35th film as a director, and novelist Robert Olen Butler.

How Clint Eastwood's 35th film as a director fits into his career, writer Robert Olen Butler on his book Perfume River and Spitting Image puppet maker turned ceramicist Roger Law.

Clint Eastwood's latest film Sully tells the story of Captain Chesley Sullenberger who landed an airliner on New York's Hudson river in 2009. Critic Angie Errigo discusses how Eastwood's 35th film as a director fits into his remarkable career.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler discusses his latest book, Perfume River, which explores how the Vietnam war resonates down the generations. 

Roger Law used to make the puppets for Spitting Image, the satirical TV show which poked fun at celebrities and politicians showing them with grotesque mouths and rheumy eyes. Now he makes porcelain vases and plates portraying Weedy Sea-Dragons and Long-nosed Poteroos. As his exhibition Transported opens at The Scottish Gallery, in Edinburgh, he explains why he's made the change.

Last month, the Culture Secretary announced that the British Army would establish a specialist cultural property protection unit. As the bill comes closer to becoming law, Lt Colonel Tim Purbrick, an art dealer and British army reservist who was a tank commander during the Desert Storm campaign, discusses how such a unit could work.

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