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Front Row: Lee Child on Edward Hopper, ENO's Cressida Pollock and The Pass

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05/12/2016

Lee Child on Edward Hopper, ENO's Cressida Pollock and The Pass

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Lee Child on Edward Hopper, ENO's Cressida Pollock and The Pass

Author Lee Child discusses short stories inspired by Edward Hopper paintings.

Authors Lee Child, Megan Abbott and Lawrence Block on stories inspired by Edward Hopper paintings and actor Martin Compston talks about dramatising real-life crime on TV.

Thriller writers Lee Child, Megan Abbott and Lawrence Block discuss their new collection of short stories inspired by the paintings of American artist Edward Hopper. The anthology, In Sunlight or in Shadow, also includes stories by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Olen Butler.

English National Opera's CEO Cressida Pollock discusses the company's recent struggles, which have seen stringent funding cuts, strikes and, most recently, the postponement of a season in Blackpool.

Tim Robey reviews the film The Pass, about two young professional football players whose kiss echoes through the next ten years of both their lives.

ITV's new drama, In Plain Sight, is based on the true story of Scottish serial killer, Peter Manuel and the attempts of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie to bring him to justice in the 1950s. The writer Nick Stevens and actor Martin Compston, who plays Manuel, discuss the challenges of making a drama about real life crime.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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