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Front Row: Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey

Gurinder Chadha, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey

21/02/2017

Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey

Gurinder Chadha on her film Viceroy's House, and American Gothic at the Royal Academy.

Gurinder Chadha discusses her film Viceroy's House; America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s at the Royal Academy; designer Christopher Bailey on the influence of Henry Moore.

Director Gurinder Chadha discusses her new film Viceroy's House, which tells the story of the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, seen from the vantage point of Lord and Lady Mountbatten (played by Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson) and the British and Indian staff who worked in the Viceroy's palace. 

America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, a new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, begins with 'the fall' that the US experienced after the Crash of 1929. Curator Adrian Locke takes John Wilson round the exhibition which offers artists' reactions to the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise in racial tensions and a huge swell in immigration, starting with Grant Wood's famous American Gothic which has left North America for the first ever time.

The fashion house Burberry has teamed up with the Henry Moore Foundation to collaborate on an exhibition celebrating the company's new collection. Alongside some of Henry Moore's work, Christopher Bailey - chief executive and chief creative officer at Burberry - shows how the sculptor's work has influenced and inspired his designs and his working process.

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Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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