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Front Row: Gerald Scarfe, Novelist Maja Lunde, The Judas Passion

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22/09/2017

Gerald Scarfe, Novelist Maja Lunde, The Judas Passion

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Gerald Scarfe, Novelist Maja Lunde, The Judas Passion

Celebrated political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe; new oratorio The Judas Passion.

Political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe discusses his life and work, including his production designs from Pink Floyd's The Wall. Novelist Maja Lunde imagines a future without bees.

The political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe discusses Stage and Screen, a new exhibition at House of Illustration of his designs for theatre, rock, opera, ballet and film over the last 30 years, from Orpheus in the Underworld for English National Opera to Pink Floyd's 1982 film The Wall. 

Maja Lunde, author of the best-selling novel The History of Bees, tells Kirsty why she was inspired to write about these insects whose future is under threat, and how this led her to explore what the world might look like without them.

Composer Sally Beamish and librettist David Harsent discuss The Judas Passion, their new oratorio which tells the Passion story from the perspective of Judas Iscariot.

And today is the autumn equinox and on Radio 4 we've been marking the turning of the year and the darkening of the days with poems. Live in studio we have the poet Nick Makoha with a poem called The Good Light.

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