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Front Row: 42nd Street director, Anish Kapoor, Ted Hughes poetry prize, Humber Bridge sounds

42nd Street

29/03/2017

42nd Street director, Anish Kapoor, Ted Hughes poetry prize, Humber Bridge sounds

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 42nd Street director, Anish Kapoor, Ted Hughes poetry prize, Humber Bridge sounds

42nd Street director Mark Bramble, and Anish Kapoor on his new exhibition.

Mark Bramble, director of the dance show 42nd Street; artist Anish Kapoor; a new sound installation for the Humber Bridge; winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

As the Broadway classic 42nd Street tap dances its way into the West End, the show's director and writer Mark Bramble discusses the great 'star is born' tale, which sees understudy Peggy Sawyer thrown into the spotlight to take the lead. 

Anish Kapoor takes Samira round his latest exhibition in which he blurs the line between two-dimensional paintings and three-dimensional sculptures, including a pair of red stainless-steel mirrors.

The vast Humber Bridge is the focus of a new artwork for Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Norwegian musician Jan Bang and Hull-based sound recordist Jez Riley French discuss The Height of the Reeds, an interactive soundtrack they have created for Opera North, to be listened to on headphones as you cross the length of the 2,200m bridge. 

The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry highlights exciting new work by recognising not just poems on the page, but poetry written for a wide variety of contexts - such as the stage and art instillations. Previous winners have included Andrew Motion, Kate Tempest and Alice Oswald. We hear from this year's winner.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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