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Front Row: Armistead Maupin, Viviana Durante on Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Mining Art Gallery

Armistead Maupin, Viviana Durante on Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Mining Art Gallery

23/10/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Armistead Maupin, Viviana Durante on Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Mining Art Gallery

Armistead Maupin's memoir, Logical Family; choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan's legacy.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Armistead Maupin's memoir, Logical Family; choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan's legacy; the new Mining Art Gallery.

Tales of The City writer Armistead Maupin discusses his new memoir Logical Family, which details his early life in an ultra-conservative family in the deep South, serving in Vietnam, and his move to San Francisco, the city with which he is most associated. 

On the 25th anniversary of the death of choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Viviana Durante, former principal ballerina of the Royal Ballet, and dance critic Debra Craine discuss the legacy of the man whose work is currently being celebrated at the Royal Opera House.

The UK's first gallery dedicated to mining art has just opened in Bishop Auckland in County Durham. The Mining Art Gallery celebrates the 'pitmen painters' - the miners who also made art. David Maddan, Chief Executive of the Auckland Project, as well as two local mining art collectors, Dr Robert McManners and Gillian Wales who have donated their entire collection, discuss the project. And local artist and former miner Bob Olly gives a guided tour. 

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Edwina Pitman.

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