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Front Row: Cannes, David Chipperfield on I.M. Pei, Denise Mina, Sean Edwards

17/05/2019

Cannes, David Chipperfield on I.M. Pei, Denise Mina, Sean Edwards

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Cannes, David Chipperfield on I.M. Pei, Denise Mina, Sean Edwards

Report from the Cannes Film Festival, including Elton John biopic Rocketman

Report from the Cannes Film Festival, including Elton John biopic Rocketman and Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You. Plus crime writer Denise Mina and Welsh artist Sean Edwards.

News from the Cannes Film Festival, including the premieres of Elton John biopic Rocketman and Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You. With film critic Jason Solomons. 

David Chipperfield pays tribute to fellow architect I.M Pei, famous for his iconic designs such as the Louvre pyramid, who has died aged 102. 

Scottish crime writer Denise Mina on Conviction, her latest novel whose narrator is obsessed with listening to true crime podcasts. 

Welsh artist Sean Edwards has an exhibition at the Venice Biennale in which his elderly mother performs a monologue each day, broadcasting live from her flat in Cardiff into a Venice Church. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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