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Front Row: Jack O'Connell; Emma Donoghue's Queer Icon; Diana, Our Mother; Jules Buckley

Jack O'Connell, Emma Donoghue's Queer Icon, Diana, Our Mother, Jules Buckley

24/07/2017

Jack O'Connell; Emma Donoghue's Queer Icon; Diana, Our Mother; Jules Buckley

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jack O'Connell; Emma Donoghue's Queer Icon; Diana, Our Mother; Jules Buckley

Actor Jack O'Connell on playing Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on the West End stage.

Jack O'Connell on his role in Tennessee Williams's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; novelist Emma Donoghue chooses her Queer Icon; conductor Jules Buckley looks ahead to his two Proms.

Jack O'Connell, who starred in the TV series Skins, and on the big screen in Starred Up, '71 and Unbroken, discusses his latest role as Brick in Tennessee Williams's classic play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Tomorrow the conductor Jules Buckley will perform the first of his two BBC Proms 2017. Buckley - who founded The Heritage Orchestra and in 2015 performed The Ibiza Prom in conjunction with Radio 1's Pete Tong - discusses this year's works which will be taking their inspiration from Scott Walker and Charles Mingus. 

For our Queer Icons series, best-selling novelist Emma Donoghue champions Patricia Rozema's film, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.

Plus, Ashley Gething is the producer/director of the much talked about television film Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, in which Princes William and Harry give a rare interview about their mother Diana Princess of Wales who died 20 years ago. Ashley explains how the programme came about, and the insight it gives into how the Princes coped with her death.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Jerome Weatherald 
(Main Image: Jack O'Connell as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Photographer credit: Johan Persson).

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