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Front Row: Sir Lenny Henry, Alan Cumming in Instinct, Divine inspiration in the arts

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Sir Lenny Henry, Alan Cumming in Instinct, Divine inspiration in the arts

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Sir Lenny Henry, Alan Cumming in Instinct, Divine inspiration in the arts

Sir Lenny Henry looks back at his career on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Sir Lenny Henry looks back at his career on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Alan Cumming in TV cop show Instinct, and divine inspiration in the arts.

This year Sir Lenny Henry marks his 60th birthday with a special television programme with Sir Trevor McDonald. As well as performing some new sketches, he talks about bunking off school to appear in the TV talent show New Faces and how he fell in love with Shakespeare. He joins Stig to discuss a career that has spanned over four decades. 

In the US TV drama series Instinct, Alan Cumming stars as Dr Dylan Reinhart, writer, academic and former CIA operative, drawn into a murder investigation when a serial killer copies one of his books. We review the show, which is based on the novel Murder Games by James Patterson, claiming the first gay male lead in a police procedural television show.

For centuries in the western world, religion was the great driving force for artists, musicians and writers. Janina Ramirez, Laura-Jane Foley and A N Wilson discuss the nature of divine inspiration and whether it still holds sway in an increasingly secular society.

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Producer Harry Parker.

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