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Front Row: Jenny Saville, Laura van der Heijden, The art of the deadline

11/04/2019

Jenny Saville, Laura van der Heijden, The art of the deadline

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jenny Saville, Laura van der Heijden, The art of the deadline

Jenny Saville on her new self-portrait, painted in response to a Rembrandt masterpiece.

Cellist Laura van der Heijden plays live. Painter Jenny Saville on her new self-portrait, painted in response to a Rembrandt masterpiece. Plus the art of working to a deadline.

British painter Jenny Saville, the most expensive living female artist in the world, discusses her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt's masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles. 

Cellist Laura van der Heijden, who won the BBC Young Musician competition when she was 15, plays live and discusses her debut album of Russian music called 1948, which last night won the BBC Music Magazine's Newcomer of the Year Award. 

Plus the art of working to a deadline, with authors Robert McCrum and Sophie Heawood and Teresa Amabile from Harvard Business School.

Presenter Stig Abell
Producer Jack Soper

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