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Front Row: Award Winners of 2016

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27/12/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Award Winners of 2016

With award winners Paul Beatty, Helen Marten, Leonardo DiCaprio and Denise Gough.

Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty, Turner Prize artist Helen Marten and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio are among the big award winners of 2016 interviewed in this edition.

We speak to the big award winners from the past year.

Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his satirical novel The Sellout; Denise Gough was on the point of giving up acting when she was offered the role that would win her an Olivier; Sonia Friedman, who won Best Producer at the Stage Awards, brought Harry Potter to the stage; Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar after being nominated 5 times; Helen Marten won not only the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture but the Turner Prize and split the winnings; 17 year old Sheku Kanneh-Mason won the BBC's Young Musician of the Year playing Shostakovich.


Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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