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Front Row: Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries

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02/07/2018

Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries

Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age, and a tribute to Dame Gillian Lynne.

Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age. Elaine Paige, Cameron Mackintosh and Arlene Phillips discuss Gillian Lynne's work and legacy, plus Whitney film documentaries.

Maxine Peake discusses her new stage play, Queens of the Coal Age, which dramatizes the incident in 1993 when, armed with wet wipes and nicotine gum, Anne Scargill led a group of women to occupy Parkside Colliery in protest against pit closures.

The acclaimed dancer and choreographer, Gillian Lynne, has died aged 92. Best known for Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, she worked on more than 60 shows on Broadway and in the West End. Elaine Paige, Cameron Mackintosh and choreographer Arlene Phillips pay tribute.

Kevin Macdonald's film Whitney is released this week, the second documentary in just over a year looking at the icon's life (and demise). While Macdonald's new film is officially supported by the late singer's estate, Nick Broomfield's 2017 Whitney: Can I Be Me?, was unauthorised. Critic Grace Barber-Plentie considers how access and the involvement of the family affected the feeling of the film, and whether the chorus of interviewed voices bought us any closer to understanding Whitney Houston.

Presenter: Stig Abell 
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

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