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Inua Ellams

Mark Eccleston

Briony Hanson

Cahal Dallat

Rory Waterman

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Timothy Prosser

Front Row: Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless

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23/11/2017

Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless

Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Plus a review of TV drama Godless.

Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Reviews of TV drama Godless and tennis film Battle of the Sexes. Plus an exploration of the work of Cornish poet Charles Causley.

Inua Ellams on his acclaimed play Barber Shop Chronicles, which explores masculinity from the perspective of the barber's chair, both in London and Africa. 

Tennis champion Billie Jean King's show match against notorious chauvinist Bobby Riggs in 1973 is the subject of a new film Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell. Mark Eccleston reviews.

Briony Hanson discusses Godless, Netflix's first western miniseries, starring Jack O'Connell, Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery, in a role that is a far cry from Downton Abbey. 

This year marks the centenary of the birth of the Cornish poet Charles Causley, whose work was influenced by ballads, hymns and his love of jazz and dance bands. Cahal Dallat, the first Charles Causley Trust musician in residence, poet Rory Waterman and singer Jim Causley discuss his legacy. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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