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Front Row: Will Self, My Life as a Courgette, Raphael drawings

Will Self, My Life as a Courgette, Raphael drawings

30/05/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Will Self, My Life as a Courgette, Raphael drawings

My Life as a Courgette reviewed, Will Self on his new novel Phone, Raphael drawings.

French animation My Life as a Courgette, Will Self on his new novel Phone plus a discussion on past experimental fiction with Kevin Jackson. Raphael's drawings at the Ashmolean.

French animation My Life as a Courgette has wowed the critics at Cannes. The children's film is about a boy nick-named Courgette and takes a refreshing look at life in an orphanage and explores the reasons why the children are there. Briony Hanson reviews. 

Will Self talks about his new novel Phone, the third and final instalment of his experimental trilogy which started with 2012's Man Booker nominated Umbrella. Written with no paragraphs or chapter breaks, the novel is a stream of consciousness story and returns to one of his previous characters, the psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner. Critic Kevin Jackson joins Kirsty and Will Self to discuss the history of experimental fiction since Tristram Shandy.

120 rarely seen drawings by Italian renaissance painter Raphael have gone on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The drawings are often considered as preparatory for his paintings, but this exhibition encourages visitors to consider them in their own right. Richard Cork reviews.

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