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Front Row: Robert Lindsay, Tony Hall, How to make a new musical

Robert Lindsay, Tony Hall, How to make a new musical

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Robert Lindsay on his first acting job 50 years ago. Plus BBC DG Tony Hall.

Robert Lindsay on his first acting job 50 years ago, in a play set during the plague of 1666. Plus BBC DG Tony Hall on the BBC's renewed commitment to the arts.

Robert Lindsay on his first acting job fifty years ago at the Nortcott Theatre in Devon, in a play which has contemporary resonance: Don Taylor's historical drama The Roses of Eyam, about the village that voluntarily put itself into lockdown during the Great Plague that swept Britain in the mid 17th Century. 

Director General Tony Hall discusses the BBC’s renewed commitment to the arts with its Culture in Quarantine initiative, and the serious situation currently facing the arts in the this country.

How to write a new musical? In the second of a series going behind the scenes in the creation of a musical about the climate crisis called House Fire, Edwina Pitman talks to writer / director Poppy Burton Morgan and composer Ben Toth. 

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Julian May

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