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Front Row: Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin, Hugh Laurie on Avenue 5, Gabrielle Aplin

Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin, Hugh Laurie on Avenue 5, Gabrielle Aplin

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Remembering the life of former Python Terry Jones with Michael Palin

Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin; Hugh Laurie on Armando Iannucci's TV drama Avenue 5; Kerry Hudson on risk; singer Gabrielle Aplin

Michael Palin remembers his friend and fellow Python, Terry Jones - writer, director, actor and historian - whose death at the age of 77 was announced today. 

Hugh Laurie discusses his new role in Armando Iannucci’s new TV comedy drama Avenue 5, which is set on a galactic cruise liner. When a mishap turns the eight-week pleasure jaunt among the stars into a voyage lasting three-and-a-half years it’s not just the spacecraft that begins to breakdown – it’s civilisation itself. And masks begin to slip. Laurie stars as the urbane, silver-haired Ryan Clark, the confidence inspiring Captain. But Clark is not what he seems. 

Mental health, the pressures of social media and a feeling of freedom all feature in Gabrielle Aplin’s upbeat pop album Dear Happy. The singer-songwriter talks to Samira about making the album on her own record label and performs live in the studio.

As Front Row continues to explore risk in the arts, author Kerry Hudson speaks about the emotional risk involved in writing her memoir Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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