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Front Row: Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake

Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake, Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake

Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on his novel An Orchestra of Minorities.

Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on his novel An Orchestra of Minorities. Director James Conway discusses The Silver Lake, Kurt Weill’s satirical opera banned by the Nazis.

Our latest Front Row Booker Prize Book Group puts its questions to shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma about his book An Orchestra of Minorities, the story of chicken farmer Chinonso whose aspirations lead him to leave Nigeria for Cyprus – a decision that brings momentous consequences.  

Drag star Ginger Johnson reviews RuPaul's Drag Race UK on BBC Three. With contestants such as Baga Chipz and Sum Ting Wong, how does the drag reality competition compare to the multi-Emmy-award-winning US version?

Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake is about to tour the UK for the first time. English Touring Opera’s director James Conway discusses the satirical opera which was banned by the Nazis weeks after its first performance in 1933. 

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