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Front Row: Jude Kelly, Emma Thompson, how to write a musical, online art games reviewed

13/05/2020

Jude Kelly, Emma Thompson, how to write a musical, online art games reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jude Kelly, Emma Thompson, how to write a musical, online art games reviewed

Jude Kelly on the first online WOW Festival, Emma Thompson reads poetry by Liz Lochhead.

Jude Kelly discusses this weekend’s first online WOW Festival. Emma Thompson reads one of her favourite poems by Liz Lochhead.

Ten years ago, Jude Kelly founded WOW – the Women of the World foundation – aimed at celebrating women and girls and the challenges they face in society. The former artistic director of London’s Southbank Centre discusses this weekend’s WOW Festival in collaboration with the BBC, the first to take place online because of the pandemic.

Emma Thompson reads one of her favourite poems. It's by Liz Lochhead, the former Scottish Makar, and called Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class.

How do you set about writing a musical? In the first of a new series, Front Row follows a team of creatives led by writer Poppy Burton Morgan and composer Ben Toth, through every stage of the process of developing House Fire, a new musical about the climate crisis. 

With art galleries across the world closed, access to art for pleasure and education is severely limited and sorely missed, but some art organisations and games companies have developed games to help art lovers continue to engage with art at home. Gabrielle de la Puente of The White Pube, a collaboration of two art critics,  joins Tom to review the Pompidou Centre’s single-player game Prisme 7 and the online multiplayer game Occupy White Walls. 

Main image: Jude Kelly
Image credit: Ellie kurttz

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Julian May

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