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Front Row: Angels in America, Mindhorn, Storytelling in Greek myths

Angels in America, Mindhorn, Storytelling in Greek myths

02/05/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Angels in America, Mindhorn, Storytelling in Greek myths

Mindhorn, Tony Kushner on Angels in America, Natalie Haynes and Madeline Miller.

Mindhorn film, Tony Kushner on Angels in America, Natalie Haynes and Madeline Miller discuss the enduring appeal of Greek myths.

Mindhorn is the new film about a faded TV star who reprises his role as an Isle of Man sleuth who has a robotic eye, and can see the truth. Julian Barratt (Mighy Boosh) and Simon Farnaby (Horrible Histories) co-wrote and co-star and talk to Kirsty about poking fun at actorly behaviour, and how the film parodies Bergerac and the Sixty Million Dollar Man. 

Tony Kushner on his epic play Angels in America, which he wrote and set during the Aids crisis in America in the 1980s, and which is being revived in a new production at the National Theatre, starring Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough and Nathan Lane. 

Madeline Miller, the Orange Prize winning author of The Song of Achilles, and the writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, whose new book The Children of Jocasta retells with the story of Antigone, discuss turning the tales of the Greek myths into novels and why the ancient legends still have a contemporary and universal appeal.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Dymphna Flynn.

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