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Front Row: Grace Jones exhibition, Steve McQueen's film Mangrove, A newly rediscovered work by Henry Purcell

The World Premiere of a long-lost work by Henry Purcell

Grace Jones exhibition, Steve McQueen's film Mangrove, A newly rediscovered work by Henry Purcell

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Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio - a new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary.

A Grace Jones exhibition in Nottingham; the world premiere of a newly rediscovered work by Henry Purcell; Steve McQueen's new historic film Mangrove.

The London Film Festival opens this week with Mangrove, by the Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen. It’s the first in an ambitious five-part film series looking at individual stories about the West Indian Community in London from 1968 to 1985. Anna Smith joins us to review Mangrove, the story of a notorious 1970 prosecution that exposed police harassment of Black Britons, as well as to give us her picks from this year's London Film Festival, and to discuss the news about Cineworld's announcement of the closure of its venues.   

Front Row gives the first modern day performance of a lost piece by the great English baroque composer Henry Purcell. The song was recently discovered by Purcell scholar Rebecca Herissone, Professor of Music at Manchester University, who explains the significance of her find. 

Grace Jones has had a varied and highly successful career as a model, singer/songwriter and actress, lasting more than four decades. A new exhibition Grace Before Jones at Nottingham Contemporary looks at her life and her achievements. We speak with curator Cedric Fauq.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald

Purcell’s O That my Grief was performed on Front Row by The English Concert
Anthony Gregory – Tenor 1
Hugo Hymas – Tenor 2
Ashley Riches – Bass
Kristian Bezuidenhout – Harpsichord
Joseph Crouch – Cello

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