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Front Row: Anthony Head, Tamburlaine, Ai Weiwei, Line of Duty

Anthony Head, Tamburlaine, Ai Weiwei, Line of Duty

27/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Anthony Head, Tamburlaine, Ai Weiwei, Line of Duty

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Samira Ahmed talks to actor Anthony Head.

Samira Ahmed talks to actor Anthony Head, who is on stage in Terence Rattigan's Love in Idleness. Plus Tim Marlow on the underground studio of artist Ai Weiwei.

Anthony Head, who started his career in the Nescafe Gold Blend adverts and then went on to achieve international fame in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is now on stage in Terence Rattigan's Love In Idleness. He talks about his career spanning several decades.

Dreda Say Mitchell reviews the return of BBC drama Line of Duty, starring Thandie Newton. 

Tim Marlow explores the underground studio of artist Ai Weiwei for the new World Service documentary strand In the Studio, which launches tomorrow.

As a British East Asian, mostly female cast perform Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, director Ng Choon Ping and Kumiko Mendl of Yellow Earth Theatre Company discuss the contemporary resonances in this brutal and controversial play.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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