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Front Row: David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One

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04/06/2018

David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One

Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of WW1, Women's non-fiction writing.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of World War One, Viv Albertine and women's non-fiction writing, plus the British Soap Awards.

Playwright David Edgar is 70 this year. He was 20 in 1968 coming of age, in Bob Dylan's words, when 'there was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air'. In a revolutionary move for him David Edgar is taking to the stage himself in the latest of his many theatre pieces. In his one man show, Trying it On, Edgar reflects on the political eruptions of his lifetime and his engagement with them. Why did some revolutionaries embrace Thatcherism? What has his generation achieved? 

Viv Albertine, author of two bestselling autobiographies, and former member of The Slits, joins literary historian Rebecca Stott, whose ground breaking memoir The Days of Rain won the Costa Biography prize this year, to discuss women's non fiction writing. 

Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One at Tate Britain marks 100 years since the end of the war, and reflects on how artists responded to the physical and psychological effects of the fighting. Co-curators Emma Chambers and Rachel Smyth consider how art changed from the middle of the war in 1916 to the 1920s and early '30s.

TV Critic Emma Bullimore on the British Soap Awards which took place on Saturday. Is there a greater appetite for dark themes?

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