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Front Row: John Grisham,  re-opening of museums and galleries, the best of theatre online

27/05/2020

John Grisham,  re-opening of museums and galleries, the best of theatre online

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Bestselling author John Grisham on his latest novel.

Bestselling author John Girsham on his latest novel, Camino Winds. The re-opening of museums and galleries in the UK. The best of theatre online.

Bestselling author John Grisham on his new novel Camino Winds, a sequel to Camino Island, in which a coterie of  crime authors discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during a hurricane. There are currently over 300 million John Grisham books in print worldwide, including A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief and The Client. 

With museums and galleries in Europe announcing their preparations for re-opening on a limited scale, how do things look in the UK? Ros Kerslake, CEO of the Heritage Fund, discusses the challenges being faced by institutions across the country and their financial situation with Dr Kathy Talbot, Trustee of the Tenby Museum and Art Gallery in Wales.

While the Covid 19 crisis has led to physical theatres going dark, many theatre companies have released work online for anyone to watch in the comfort of their own homes, often for free. What makes some plays, monologues and adaptations successful? Sarah Crompton joins Tom to discuss the best of what's available online. 

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Simon Richardson

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