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Front Row: Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland

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26/06/2018

Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland

Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.

Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson about the star's complex relationship with his own image. Plus the Kynren pageant in Bishop Auckland.

Michael Jackson as a visual icon is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which brings together artists inspired by the global star. Art critic Ekow Eshun joins Todd Gray - Michael Jackson's personal photographer at the time of Off The Wall and Thriller - to discuss the star's relationship with his own image.

An American podcast, which explores the way humans use music, has investigated the use of pop music by so-called Islamic State to spread terror. John Wilson talks to Pitch producer Whitney Jones.

Kynren is a theatrical spectacular - a pageant involving more than 1,000 people telling 2,000 years of English history on an acting area of more than 7 acres, which includes a lake, longboat and working railway. We go behind the scenes in Bishop Auckland to find out how the cast and crew - all local volunteers - manage this extravaganza.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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