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Front Row: Patriots Day, Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, Syria documentaries

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20/02/2017

Patriots Day, Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, Syria documentaries

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Patriots Day, Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, Syria documentaries

Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, documentaries about Syria.

Samira Ahmed presents the arts magazine programme. Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra leaves the UK, and making documentaries about Syria.

Mark Wahlberg stars in new film Patriots Day, which focuses on the bombing at the Boston Marathon in 2013 which killed three people and injured 264. Michael Carlson reviews the film which was directed by Peter Berg, who also worked with Wahlberg recently on Deepwater Horizon.

Stephen Karam is one of the hottest playwrights in America right now - his play The Humans recently won several Tony Awards. As his work is performed in the UK for the first time, he discusses Speech and Debate, his early play about three misfit teenagers caught up in a sex scandal. 

The Oxfordshire-based European Union Baroque Orchestra has announced it will give its last UK concert in its current form on 19 May, before moving to Antwerp, citing the prospect of reduced funding and administrative difficulties post-Brexit. Director General Paul James explains the orchestra's decision. 

The situation in Aleppo in Syria has been the focus for a number of documentary-makers recently, and two of them are nominated for an Oscar for the Documentary (Short Subject) category which will be announced on Sunday. The makers of Watani: My Homeland and The White Helmets discuss the challenges they faced. 

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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