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Front Row: Ronnie Wood, Shakespeare plays on screen, Taylor Swift's new song, Peter Hoeg

Ronnie Wood, Shakespeare plays on screen, Taylor Swift's new song, Peter Hoeg

25/08/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ronnie Wood, Shakespeare plays on screen, Taylor Swift's new song, Peter Hoeg

Ronnie Wood on his paintings; Cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare; Taylor Swift's new song.

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood on paintings; we look at problems of adapting Shakespeare for film; Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do reviewed; Danish writer Peter Hoeg.

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood discusses his passion for painting, drawing and sculpture. In the year that marks his seventieth birthday, he tells Stig Abell how his relationship with art began.

Veteran director James Ivory claimed this week he was struggling to get investors for his film Richard II, because financiers feared that no money could be made from films based on Shakespeare's plays. We ask film-maker Anne Beresford and Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance literature, if there is a problem adapting the Bard for the big screen. 

After a social-media purge and a lot of speculation, Taylor Swift has released the first single from her new album, Reputation. Kate Mossman gives her verdict on What You Made Me Do, a song that credits Right Said Fred for an interpolation of the melody from their 1991 hit I'm Too Sexy. 

Danish writer Peter Hoeg found fame with his second novel, Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow. He talks about his new novel, The Susan Effect, which, like his most famous book, focuses on a woman who risks everything to get to the truth. 

Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Kate Bullivant.

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