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Front Row: Costa Book Awards winners, Elizabeth Friedlander, musical interpolation

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02/01/2018

Costa Book Awards winners, Elizabeth Friedlander, musical interpolation

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Costa Book Awards winners, Elizabeth Friedlander, musical interpolation

The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row.

The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row, plus Stig speaks to the winner of the Best Novel Prize.

Novelist Wendy Holden announces the category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 exclusively on Front Row and Stig talks to the winner of the Novel Category. 

Artist Elizabeth Friedlander is the subject of a new exhibition at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. The work of Friedlander is instantly recognisable as mid-20th century design at its best including her Penguin book covers and Bauer Type Foundry typeface named for her - Elizabeth. Curator Katharine Meynell talks about her life and work. 

Taylor Swift's new album Reputation features the single Look What You Made Me Do, whose chorus bears more than a passing resemblance to Right Said Fred's 1991 single I'm Too Sexy. Mixing new lyrics and additions to an original piece of music has the name 'interpolation'. Music writer Ben Wardle ponders this now-widespread phenomenon, and looks back to when it all started.

Presenter : Stig Abell
Producer : Kate Bullivant.

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