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Front Row: Christmas TV, Theatre from the Calais Jungle, Protecting live music.

Christmas TV, theatre from the Calais Jungle and protecting live music.

12/12/2017

Christmas TV, Theatre from the Calais Jungle, Protecting live music.

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Christmas TV, Theatre from the Calais Jungle, Protecting live music.

Staying in or going out? Festive TV reviewed. And how live music venues could be protected

Staying in or going out? Festive TV reviewed and how live music venues could be protected. Plus theatre from the Calais Jungle camp and the rise of the vinyl hipster.

As the Christmas TV schedules are finalised we round up the best festive telly. With Caroline Frost. 

Do live music venues need protecting from inner-city property development? We debate a proposed "Agent of Change" law to do just that. With the Rt Hon John Spellar MP and Andrew Whitaker, Planning Director of the Home Builders Federation. 

The young directors who brought theatre to the Jungle camp in Calais, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, have now written a play about the experience. They discuss staging The Jungle at the Young Vic in London. 

With news that sales of vinyl records have hit a new 25-year high, music writer Ben Wardle - a self-confessed middle-aged vinyl bore - expresses his concerns over his patch being a little threatened by a new breed of collector, the vinyl hipster.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang 
Producer: Helen Fitzhenry.

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