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Only Artists brings two artists together to talk about their creative work.

Only Artists from BBC Radio 4 brings two artists together to talk about their creative work. The agenda is theirs, the conversation is free-flowing, and there is no presenter.

Only Artists from BBC Radio 4 brings two artists together to talk about their creative work. The agenda is theirs, the conversation is free-flowing, and there is no presenter.   The title derives from the art historian EH Gombrich, who began his highly influential book The Story of Art with the famous line “There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists”. Here are some of them…

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Only Artists: Series 6: Elizabeth Llewellyn meets Amma Asante

Elizabeth Llewellyn meets Amma Asante

Series 6

BBC Radio 4 - Only Artists, Series 6, Elizabeth Llewellyn meets Amma Asante

Opera singer Elizabeth Llewellyn meets film director and screenwriter Amma Asante.

The opera singer Elizabeth Llewellyn meets the film director and screenwriter Amma Asante.

Elizabeth Llewellyn first won wide critical acclaim in 2010, when she starred in Jonathan Miller’s production of La Bohème at English National Opera.  Her path to success was unconventional: she gave up singing at the age of 22, and worked as a project manager for an IT company for a decade before gradually returning to music. She has now performed in opera houses around the world, including leading roles in Tosca, Madame Butterfly, and Porgy and Bess.  

Amma Asante appeared in Grange Hill as a teenager, and moved on to writing and directing. In 2004 she won the best newcomer BAFTA for her film A Way of Life.  She went on to direct Belle, which was inspired by a portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a girl born into slavery, but brought up in the house of a British lord.  Her film A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, opened the London Film Festival in 2016. 


Producer Clare Walker

Only Artists: Series 6

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Series in which two artists discuss creative questions.

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