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Front Row: Rachel Parris, Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley, Andy Burnham

06/03/2020

Rachel Parris, Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley, Andy Burnham

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Rachel Parris, Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley, Andy Burnham

The Mash Report's Rachel Parris on how her personal life inspired her new stand-up show.

Rachel Parris went viral with The Mash Report, she talks about why her private life rather than politics influence her latest show. Also Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley.

The Mash Report’s Rachel Parris discusses why her private life rather than politics has inspired her new stand up show, All Change Please. 

As the Greater Manchester Combined Authority announces increased funding for arts venues across its ten boroughs, we talk to Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham about the effect Local Government funding cuts have had on councils’ cultural activities.

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss discusses his lifelong fascination with the artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died of tuberculosis in 1898 at the age of just 25. Gatiss has made a BBC4 film about Beardsley, famous for his distinctive black and white drawings, which coincides with an extensive new exhibition at Tate Britain of the artist’s work.

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