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Front Row: Urban myths, Author Michael Chabon, The Snow Maiden opera, Presidents on film

Urban myths, Author Michael Chabon on new book Moonglow, Opera North's The Snow Maiden, Presidents on film

19/01/2017

Urban myths, Author Michael Chabon, The Snow Maiden opera, Presidents on film

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Urban myths, Author Michael Chabon, The Snow Maiden opera, Presidents on film

Author Michael Chabon; urban myths retold on TV; and Opera North's The Snow Maiden.

Urban myths of true-ish celeb stories retold as TV drama; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon on new book Moonglow; Opera North's The Snow Maiden; and presidents on film.

Urban Myths, the new Sky Arts drama series, re-imagines 'True-ish stories', starting with Bob Dylan's infamous visit to Euythmic's star Dave Stewart's Crouch End flat. Julia Raeside reviews the series which has achieved notoriety by casting white actor Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in an episode which has subsequently been dropped. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon discusses his latest novel Moonglow, in which a dying grandfather tells the secrets of his life to his grandson. His stories are in turn bawdy and moving, violent and very funny. The novel has just been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle awards in the US.

Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, The Snow Maiden hasn't been staged in the UK for 60 years, but director John Fulljames is about to put that right. He's taking Opera North's new production of the Russian folk-tale inspired work on tour to Newcastle, Salford, Belfast, and Nottingham. 

Ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration tomorrow as the 45th President of the United States, film writer Adam Smith looks back at cinema's depiction of the Commander in Chief, from Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove to Alan Rickman as Reagan and Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln.

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