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Front Row: Common Sense on TV, Bafta nominations, Mozart at 11, Is there a Northern Aesthetic?

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10/01/2017

Common Sense on TV, Bafta nominations, Mozart at 11, Is there a Northern Aesthetic?

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Common Sense on TV, Bafta nominations, Mozart at 11, Is there a Northern Aesthetic?

Bafta nominations, Common Sense, 250 years on from Mozart's first opera, Look North.

How do British films fare in the Bafta nominations? Celebrating Common Sense on TV; Ian Page marks Mozart's opera debut; does a Northern aesthetic exist?

La La Land leads the Bafta field with 11 nominations, closely followed by Arrival and Nocturnal Animals with nine apiece but does this celebration of Hollywood come at the expense of home-grown British movies? We explore with Chief Film Critic of The Times, Kate Muir.

Common Sense is a new reality TV show from the makers of Gogglebox, in which a regular cast of British people respond to the week's news. The show's creator Stephen Lambert and TV critic Boyd Hilton discuss.

250 years ago this year, an 11-year-old Mozart composed his first operas. Ian Page, artistic director of Classical Opera, will be presenting those childhood operas this year, and he talks to Kirsty Lang about his company's 27-year commitment to perform each of Mozart's works exactly 250 years after it was composed.

North: Identity, Photography, Fashion has just opened at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery, looking at the global influence of Northern fashion and photography. We talk to its curator Adam Murray and fashion designer and cultural commentator Wayne Hemingway about the idea of a Northern aesthetic. 

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