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Front Row: Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone

06/07/2020

Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone

Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone.

Will the newly annouced £1.57 billion investment in the arts be enough? Plus Wayne McGregor creating work under lockdown and Ennio Morricone remembered.

Will the government’s £1.57 billion investment in the arts be enough save UK cultural organisations and freelancers? Samira discusses the arts rescue package with Shadow Culture Secretary Jo Stevens, Artistic Director of Leicester’s Curve Theatre, Nikolai Foster, and head of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, Deborah Annetts

We speak to dancer and choreographer Wayne McGregor about his latest work “Morgen”, created under lockdown, which strikes a note of optimism in hard times. 

Ennio Morricone, the Italian film composer, has died at the age of 91. His scores for films like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly helped define the western - but he worked across all genres, from The Battle of Algiers, Cinema Paradiso to The Untouchables - and in 2016 with Quentin Tarantino on The Hateful Eight for which Morricone won an Oscar. Neil Brand pays tribute to the work of the celebrated composer.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Simon Richardson
Studio Manager: Nigel Dix

Main image: Cesar Corrales and Francesca Howard perform Morgen
Image credit: Lara Capelli/Royal Opera House

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