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Front Row: Simple Minds, Phantom Thread, Napoleon Disrobed, Alex La Guma

Simple Minds, Phantom Thread, Napoleon Disrobed, Alex La Guma

01/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Simple Minds, Phantom Thread, Napoleon Disrobed, Alex La Guma

Scottish rock band Simple Minds perform live and discuss their 40-year career.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Scottish rock band Simple Minds discuss their 40-year career and perform live in the studio.

Simple Minds, the stadium-filling band from Glasgow, have been together for 40 years. As they release Walk Between Worlds, lead singer Jim Kerr looks back on the four decades and the band perform an acoustic version of a song from the new album.

Reputed to be Daniel Day-Lewis' final film before retiring from acting, Phantom Thread travels behind the doors of London's 1950s fashion houses. Film critic Catherine Bray discusses director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest project.

Theatre company Told by an Idiot's latest production Napoleon Disrobed imagines a comical alternative history in which instead of dying in exile, Napoleon traverses Europe alive, well and in disguise. Director Katherine Hunter and actor Paul Hunter explain the challenges of re-writing history on stage.

Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns argues that the South African novelist Alex La Guma is an overlooked literary colossus who should be restored to his rightful place at the centre of the literary canon.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Edwina Pitman.

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