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Front Row: Michael Sheen, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's favourite novel and review of television series Ackley Bridge

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05/06/2017

Michael Sheen, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's favourite novel and review of television series Ackley Bridge

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Michael Sheen, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's favourite novel and review of television series Ackley Bridge

Michael Sheen on his career, TV drama Ackley Bridge, Robert Plant on his favourite novel.

Michael Sheen on his new film and his career, school TV drama Ackley Bridge, Robert Plant, Led Zep vocalist, sings the praises of his favourite novel, and its author, Kent Nerburn.

As Michael Sheen releases his new film, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, John Wilson talks to the actor about his career. He delves into how Sheen prepared for some of his most well-known roles, playing real people such as Tony Blair, David Frost and Brian Clough. Sheen considers, too, his connection to his home town, Port Talbot, and his increasing social and political activism.

Ackley Bridge is set in a newly opened school which integrates the largely divided white and Asian children of a Yorkshire town. The Channel 4 drama, which focuses on both the staff and pupils, was created by the writer of East is East, Ayub Khan Din, as well as two former Shameless writers, Malcolm Campbell and Anya Reiss. Shahidha Bari reviews.

Neither Wolf Nor Dog is the fictionalised account of a road trip by a white man and an old Native American through Indian country. Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant tells John Wilson how the novel captivated him and why he wants to bring it to a British readership, and the book's author, Kent Nerburn, explains how the tribal elders of the Red Lake Ojibwe reservation came to trust him to write their story.

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