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Front Row: Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, Sporting theme tunes, National poetry competition winner, AJ Pearce

Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, Sporting theme tunes, National poetry competition winner, AJ Pearce

28/03/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, Sporting theme tunes, National poetry competition winner, AJ Pearce

Wes Anderson on his film, Isle of Dogs, set on a trash island in Japan.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Wes Anderson on his film, Isle of Dogs, set on a trash island in Japan. Plus how do you write a classic sporting theme tune?

Wes Anderson discusses his film Isle of Dogs, including working with stop-motion animation and drawing inspiration from Studio Ghibli director Miyazaki for the Japanese setting for the film.

What makes a great sports theme tune? As the 2018 Formula 1 season kicks off with a specially composed anthem, we speak to its composer Brian Tyler and consider the essential components of an iconic sports theme tunes with former BBC sport correspondent Adrian Warner.

Seven publishers were in a bidding war to secure AJ Pearce's debut novel Dear Mrs Bird. The author comes in to talk about the book in which a young woman dreams of becoming a lady war correspondent during the Blitz but instead is employed as the assistant to a formidable agony aunt at a failing women's magazine.

The winner of the National Poetry Competition is announced this evening, we hear from the winning poet, who will read one of their poems.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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