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Front Row: David Hare, John Akomfrah, Liverpool Everyman Rep

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27/01/2017

David Hare, John Akomfrah, Liverpool Everyman Rep

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, David Hare, John Akomfrah, Liverpool Everyman Rep

David Hare on Denial; John Akomfrah; The Liverpool Everyman repertory company.

David Hare on Denial, John Akomfrah, The Liverpool Everyman repertory company, and Fiddler on the Roof.

Playwright David Hare discusses his screenplay for the film Denial, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson, about Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt's legal battle with Holocaust denier David Irving

As the Liverpool Everyman Repertory Company is revived, after over two decades, John talks to Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz and actors Melanie La Barrie and Elliott Kingsley about their opening production of Fiddler on the Roof, and the history of the company, which in its previous 1970s incarnation launched the careers of Julie Walters, Jonathan Pryce and Bill Nighy. 

The £40,000 Artes Mundi art prize, the UK's biggest contemporary art prize, has been won by filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, who discusses his winning artwork, Auto Da Fé, which weaves together different moments over 400 years of history when communities were persecuted or driven from their land. 

Do dogs prefer Bach or Bob Marley? Neil Evans, professor of integrative physiology at the University of Glasgow reveals the results of a study examining canine musical preferences.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Edwina Pitman.

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