Front Row

Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

BBC Radio 4 LW

Front Row: Lulu Wang on The Farewell, Dave, Jessie Burton

20/09/2019

Lulu Wang on The Farewell, Dave, Jessie Burton

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Lulu Wang on The Farewell, Dave, Jessie Burton

Film-maker Lulu Wang on her latest movie The Farewell.

Film-maker Lulu Wang talks about The Farewell. Jessie Burton on her latest novel, The Confession. Plus we discuss the rapper Dave, who last night won the Mercury Prize

The Farewell, a film about an American family who return to China to visit their dying grandmother, has been a surprise box office hit in the US and is winning critical acclaim. John talks to the writer and director Lulu Wang, who based it on her own family story.

Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling novel The Miniaturist, discusses her latest book The Confession – an exploration of childhood abandonment and the search for a missing mother. 

And Kevin Le Gendre discusses the music of Dave, the rapper who last night won this year's Mercury Prize.

Presenter: John Wilson 
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Lulu Wang on The Farewell, Dave, Jessie Burton

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4