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Front Row: Liam Neeson; Dancing Mad Hatters; Author Christian Jungersen; Assassin's Creed

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30/12/2016

Liam Neeson; Dancing Mad Hatters; Author Christian Jungersen; Assassin's Creed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Liam Neeson; Dancing Mad Hatters; Author Christian Jungersen; Assassin's Creed

Actor Liam Neeson; author Christian Jungersen; dancing Mad Hatters; Assassin's Creed.

Liam Neeson on monsters and priests; Mad Hatters dancing with white rabbits; author Christian Jungersen on genocide and workplace bullying; Assassin's Creed.

Actor Liam Neeson starts the new year with two new films. In Martin Scorsese's Silence he plays a Jesuit priest who relinquishes his faith and in A Monster Calls, the treelike monster. He talks to Samira Ahmed about both, as well as being a late blooming action hero and watching the Reverend Ian Paisley preach.

How do you write about mass murder, holocausts, war crimes and how ordinary people reach a point when they kill their neighbours, and torture their former friends? The Danish author Christian Jungersen approaches this subject by setting his novel "The Exception" in an office - The Danish Centre for Information on Genocide - and documenting the behaviour of the women who work there.

In 2014, ZooNation Dance Company performed the first full-length hip hop production at the Royal Opera House in London with their take on Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland where the familiar characters are recast as patients at a mental health institution. ZooNation's Artistic Director Kate Prince talks about re-staging The Mad Hatter's Tea Party for the Roundhouse in London and how she incorporated advice from the mental health charity Time to Change.

A film version of Assassin's Creed is about to go on nationwide release but can this video game favourite make the leap onto the silver screen when so many have failed?

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