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Front Row: Debbie Harry, the Portraits of Gauguin, the best political podcasts

03/10/2019

Debbie Harry, the Portraits of Gauguin, the best political podcasts

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Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It

Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It. Plus the Portraits of Gauguin, and the best political podcasts

Debbie Harry is one of the defining musical artists of her age, known of course for her work with Blondie crafting and performing hits such as Heart of Glass, Dreaming and One Way or Another.  As her memoir Face It is published, she talks to Front Row about the highs and lows of her professional and personal life, from writing her most successful lyrics to the double-edged sword of her looks, and her experience of drugs and sexual violence.   

The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin opens at the National Gallery this week. Waldemar Januszczak reviews the show, which focuses on how the artist used portraiture primarily to express himself and his ideas about art, from the years he spent in Brittany and then French Polynesia towards the end of his life.

And at a time when, despite the gravity of the situation, politics in the UK and the US has become more entertaining than ever, Caroline Crampton recommends some of the best political podcasts offering alternative takes on the news.

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