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Front Row: Bananarama reunited, The Wellcome Book Prize winner announced, David Mach

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24/04/2017

Bananarama reunited, The Wellcome Book Prize winner announced, David Mach

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Bananarama reunited, The Wellcome Book Prize winner announced, David Mach

Bananarama back together again, and The Wellcome Book Prize winner revealed.

All-female group Bananarama on reuniting for a comeback tour; the winner of The Wellcome Book Prize is announced; artist David Mach prepares to create a new 20-tonne artwork.

As a trio, Bananarama remain one of the UK's most successful all-female groups. After four hit albums, founder member Siobhan Fahey left in 1988, with remaining members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward choosing to keep the group going for the next three decades. They join John Wilson to discuss why now was the right time to reform for a comeback tour.

The Wellcome Book Prize celebrates the best new books that engage with an aspect of medicine, health or illness, and can be fiction or non-fiction. As the winner is announced on tonight's Front Row, Val McDermid, chair of judges, joins John Wilson from the ceremony.

On the first day that he gets access to the London gallery for his new exhibition Incoming, Scottish artist David Mach shares his thoughts on the challenge of creating a new work in situ from scratch, using 20 tonnes of newspaper and a second-hand Jeep. His two-week preparations will be streamed live online.

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