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Krzysztof Penderecki

Cornelia Parker

Chantal Joffe

Ishbel Myerscough

Front Row: Stormzy, Cornelia Parker, Krzysztof Penderecki

Stormzy, Cornelia Parker, Krzysztof Penderecki

03/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Stormzy, Cornelia Parker, Krzysztof Penderecki

British grime and hip hop artist Stormzy on his new album.

Art, film and music news. British grime and hip hop artist Stormzy on his new album, and Cornelia Parker on art from the ashes of the 2014 fire at the Glasgow School of Art.

Grime artist Stormzy became a worldwide sensation when online videos of him and his friends in the park went viral. With the release of his first studio album Gang Signs & Prayer and a national tour, he talks about his range of different styles, trying to please his mum and the police kicking down his door.

Poland's greatest living composer, Krzysztof Penderecki, whose powerfully dissonant music has been used in films such as Kubrick's The Shining, reveals that his terrible experience of Nazi occupation inspired his masterpiece St Luke Passion. 

Ash to Art is the response of 25 artists to the fire that destroyed a significant part of the Glasgow School of Art in 2014. Each was given a piece of charcoal from the burned-out Mackintosh Library and asked to make a work that could be auctioned to raise money for the building's restoration. Cornelia Parker, Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough show John round the exhibition at Christie's in London.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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