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Front Row: Helen Mirren, Winter Solstice Poetry, Conductor Ed Gardner, Hairy Rockers

Helen Mirren, Winter Solstice Poetry, Conductor Ed Gardner, Hairy Rockers

21/12/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Helen Mirren, Winter Solstice Poetry, Conductor Ed Gardner, Hairy Rockers

Dame Helen Mirren, conductor Ed Gardner, poet Kayo Chingonyi, hairy old rockers.

Helen Mirren on her new film Collateral Beauty and that infamous interview with Michael Parkinson; winter solstice poetry; conductor Ed Gardner; and not-so-hairy old rockers.

Helen Mirren talks about her latest film Collateral Beauty, seeing more women on screen, that infamous interview with Michael Parkinson, and being "a damn fine woman".

Edward Gardner, Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, discusses their forthcoming UK tour and his recent Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance for his album of Janáček's Glagolitic Mass and other orchestral works.

Continuing Radio 4's poetic celebration of the Winter Soltice, Kayo Chingonyi reads his poem, Winter Song, written especially for the occasion.

Ben Wardle scrutinises the delicate issue of ageing musicians and their hair, or rather its scarcity.

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