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Front Row: Dustin Hoffman; Jon Boden plays live; the new gallery at Tate St Ives

Dustin Hoffman; Jon Boden plays live; the new gallery at Tate St Ives

11/10/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Dustin Hoffman; Jon Boden plays live; the new gallery at Tate St Ives

Dustin Hoffman on his new film, Jon Boden live, Tate St Ives reopens with a new gallery.

Dustin Hoffman and director Noah Baumbach on The Meyerowitz Stories; Jon Boden, and string trio, play live; Michael Bird looks at the new gallery at the refurbished Tate St Ives.

In his latest film, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Dustin Hoffman plays an old, bitter, self obsessed sculptor, whose children from several marriages nonetheless crave his approval. He and the director, Noah Baumbach, discuss grumpiness, fatherhood and the nature of success with Kirsty Lang.

In St Ives the Tate is about to reopen with refurbished rooms rehung with wonderful work, by international artists - Rothko, Gabo, deKooning - and those working there who achieved such status - Hepworth, Lanyon, Wallis. The writer on art, Michael Bird, who lives in St Ives, follows the conversation between these works with the artistic director, Anne Barlow and curator Sara Matson. He has a preview, too, of Tate St Ives' beautiful new gallery, a feat of engineering years
in the making. It is cut into the hill, yet still illuminated with the natural light of St Ives that drew artists there to begin with.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Boden caused some consternation when he decided to leave Bellowhead, the 11 piece folk big-band that brought traditional music and sea shanties to Glastonbury, Later with Jools Holland and the London Palladium, and the group dissolved. He has just released a solo album, Afterglow. He performs live with a string trio and talks about this work which is very different from Bellowhead, a cycle of his own songs charting a fleeting romance in a ruined city. 

And Annette Bening has her say about Harvey Weinstein. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Julian May.

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