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Front Row: Mica Paris, Ethics of Arts Funding, Jim Crace

Mica Paris, Ethics of Arts Funding, Jim Crace

06/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Mica Paris, Ethics of Arts Funding, Jim Crace

Mica Paris sings Ella Fitzgerald, the ethics of funding the arts, author Jim Crace.

The ethics of funding the arts in light of artist Nan Goldin's campaign against the philanthropic Sackler family and Mica Paris sings Ella Fitzgerald. Plus author Jim Crace.

As artists back photographer Nan Goldin's call to hold arts patrons the Sackler family to account over the US opioid crisis, we discuss the ethics of funding the arts. 

Soul singer Mica Paris talks about her current projects exploring the life and work of legendary jazz pioneer Ella Fitzgerald, and performs live in the studio.

Jim Crace has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. He talks to John about his new novel The Melody. Set in an unnamed town on the Mediterranean, its main character is a composer facing loneliness as a recent widower. The novel, Jim Crace says, has its roots in seeing child foragers on a rubbish dump in India. 

And to mark the centenary of some women being granted the vote in 1918 we hear the poem Suffragette written by Jan Dean. It's from the anthology Reaching the Stars which contains poems about extraordinary women and girls.

Presenter : John Wilson
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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