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Front Row: Tracey Emin, Minette Walters, Gauguin biopic

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01/11/2017

Tracey Emin, Minette Walters, Gauguin biopic

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Tracey Emin, Minette Walters, Gauguin biopic

Artist Tracey Emin, author Minette Walters, and a film about French painter Paul Gauguin.

Artist Tracey Emin looks back at her work over the past decade; author Minette Walters on her historical fiction debut; and a biopic about Paul Gauguin's time in Tahiti.

To coincide with the publication of a book which collects all her artwork from the past decade, Tracey Emin comes into the Front Row studio to look back at that prolific period which saw her represent Britain at the Venice Biennial.

Twenty-five years after publishing The Ice House, the first of her many highly successful crime novels, Minette Walters discusses her historical fiction debut, The Last Hours, set in a medieval Dorsetshire village during the start of the Black Death. 

Paul Gauguin's two years in Tahiti saw the French painter create some of his most celebrated artworks. But his time in French Polynesia is also seen as controversial due to alleged relationships with young girls while there. A new French-language biopic starring Vincent Cassel comes out this week about Gauguin's time on Tahiti, art critic Waldemar Januszczak gives his verdict on the film. 

For National Novel Writing Month we hear from three people hoping to complete a novel this November.

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