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Front Row: Artist Keith Tyson, dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, Shostakovich Symphony No 12

Dark comedy Prevenge, Novelist John Boyne, Artist Keith Tyson, Shostakovich Symphony No 12

09/02/2017

Artist Keith Tyson, dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, Shostakovich Symphony No 12

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Artist Keith Tyson, dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, Shostakovich Symphony No 12

Dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, artist Keith Tyson, Shostakovich Symphony No 12

Alice Lowe in Prevenge; John Boyne's novel The Heart's Invisible Furies; Turner prize-winner Keith Tyson on his new exhibition; Vasily Petrenko on the Russian Revolution at 100.

In Prevenge, writer and director Alice Lowe stars as an expectant mother whose unborn child convinces her to commit murder. Meryl O'Rourke reviews this dark comedy which was filmed whilst Lowe was actually pregnant.

John Boyne is one of Ireland's bestselling novelists. His book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold six million copies worldwide. He talks to Samira about his latest novel, The Heart's Invisible Furies, the story of social developments in post-war Ireland told through the life of his main character, Cyril Avery.

The Turner-prize winning artist Keith Tyson talks about his latest exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, in which he explores the universe and our place in it. Featuring more than 360 studio wall drawings created over the last 20 years of his career, it aims to form a visual diary of Tyson's practice.

To mark centenary of the Russian Revolution - which saw the collapse of the Russian Empire and the rise of the Soviet Union - Front Row has asked figures from the Arts world to select the work inspired by the events of 1917 that they admire most. Tonight, conductor Vasily Petrenko selects Symphony No. 12, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Plus, in the podcast edition of this programme, illustrator and storyteller Raymond Briggs who has been recognised with this year's BookTrust lifetime achievement award, speaking to John Wilson.


Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jack Soper.

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