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Front Row: Alien: Covenant, Giacometti retrospective, How should museums reflect changing social attitudes, Jamestown

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08/05/2017

Alien: Covenant, Giacometti retrospective, How should museums reflect changing social attitudes, Jamestown

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Alien: Covenant, Giacometti retrospective, How should museums reflect changing social attitudes, Jamestown

Review of Alien: Covenant; how might museums reflect changing social attitudes.

Alien: Covenant review; how should museums reflect contemporary views; Giacometti retrospective.

The latest Alien film is a prequel to the 1979 original. Rhianna Dhillon assesses how Alien: Covenant fits into the series and looks at Michael Fassbender's role as not one but two robots.

A gong surrounded by ivory tusks was removed from display at Sandringham House last week amid ethical concerns. To discuss how museums should reflect changing views in contemporary society Emma Dabiri is joined by cultural commentator Tiffany Jenkins and curator and writer Priya Khanchandani. 

The elongated human sculptures from artist Alberto Giacometti are some of the most recognizable works of modern art. As Tate Modern opens the UK's first major retrospective of his work for 20 years, art critic William Feaver gives the low down on the somewhat mythical Swiss painter-sculptor.

Jamestown is a new Sky 1 drama set in one of the first British settlements in America in the early 17th century. It begins as a group of women arrive from the UK, paid to travel to the colony to marry men they have never met. Writer Bill Gallagher reveals how the story of these women inspired the drama.

Presenter: Emma Dabiri
Producer: Hannah Robins

(Main Image: scene from Alien Covenant with Carmen Ejogo (rhs) and Amy Seimetz on the left. Credit: Twentieth Century Fox).

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