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Front Row: Riz Ahmed, Delicious, The Kite Runner on stage and Angela Carter

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23/12/2016

Riz Ahmed, Delicious, The Kite Runner on stage and Angela Carter

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Riz Ahmed, Delicious, The Kite Runner on stage and Angela Carter

Actor and rapper Riz Ahmed discusses his career and a review of Dawn French in Delicious.

Actor and rapper Riz Ahmed discusses his career, a review of Dawn French's TV drama Delicious and Matthew Spangler on adapting Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner for the stage.

Riz Ahmed is currently in our cinemas as part of a rebel crew in Star Wars spin-off Rogue One. But his acting roles have ranged from appearing in low-budget indie films like The Road to Guantanamo to HBO prison drama The Night Of, for which he's just been nominated for a Golden Globe. As a rapper, he's part of the group Swet Shop Boys and has released three albums. He discusses how he got started and his varied career. 

Delicious, a new four-part TV drama series, stars Iain Glen as a chef and hotel owner in Cornwall, and Dawn French as his ex-wife who taught him all he knows about food. Love, sex, lies and betrayal feature significantly when things start to unravel. Sarah Crompton reviews.

As a stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 bestseller The Kite Runner opens in London's West End, its adapter, the American playwright Matthew Spangler, explains the challenges of turning an epic novel, spanning 30 years of Afghan history and politics, into a piece of theatre.

Novelist Angela Carter is famous for the vivid imagery she evoked in her feminist takes on folk tales and fairy stories. Strange Worlds, an exhibition at the RWA (Royal West of England Academy of Art) in Bristol explores which paintings may have been the inspiration behind books like The Bloody Chamber and Nights At The Circus. Curator Marie Mulvey-Roberts talks through her choices.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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