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Front Row: The Mule, Anne Griffin, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brexit Arts Funding

The Mule, Anne Griffin, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brexit Arts Funding

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Review of Clint Eastwood's latest film about an elderly drug mule

Review of The Mule, directed by Clint Eastwood in which he stars as a 90-year-old drug mule. Plus the winner of the Artes Mundi prize, Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Clint Eastwood is the director and star of The Mule, about a cantankerous 90 year-old horticulturist who decides to become a drug mule. Mark Eccleston reviews. 

The UK's biggest contemporary art prize, the £40,000 Artes Mundi prize, was won last night in Cardiff by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, known for his dream-like films such as Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He talks to Front Row.

In new novel When All is Said, 84 year-old Maurice Hannigan props up the hotel bar in a small town in Ireland and, by toasting the five people important in his life, he tells of his path from poverty to becoming a rich landowner. Debut novelist Anne Griffin explains her real-life inspiration and how she got into her narrator’s head.

There have been calls by Leave campaigners for London's Photographers' Gallery to be stripped of its funding in the wake of their exhibition of a fully functioning office tasked with reversing Brexit. In the continued uncertainty surrounding the future of arts funding post-Brexit, cultural historian Robert Hewison discusses what organisations such as Arts Council England may need to consider when funding projects in the future. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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