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Front Row: Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, Joseph Hillier

26/11/2018

Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, Joseph Hillier

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, Joseph Hillier

Actor Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, the UK's largest sculpture

Actor Jamie Dornan talks about TV drama Death and Nightingales, artist Joseph Hillier on creating the UK's largest bronze sculpture, film director Bernardo Bertolucci remembered

Fifty Shades of Grey and The Fall actor, Jamie Dornan, stars in new BBC Two drama Death and Nightingales. Based on Eugene McCabe's modern Irish classic novel of the same name, it’s a story of love across the religious and class divide, set in the beautiful countryside of Fermanagh in 1885.

Theatre Royal Plymouth announced today they have commissioned the UK’s largest bronze sculpture, to be installed in front of the theatre in spring 2019. The artist Joseph Hillier discusses his the work, named Messenger, which he’s created using 3D scans from the body of an actor performing in Othello at Plymouth in 2014. 

With the announcement of the deaths of film directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Nicolas Roeg, Kirsty speaks to film producer Jeremy Thomas, who collaborated with both men; and critic Hannah McGill assesses their work. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Dymphna Flynn

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