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Front Row: Alex Wheatle, Miranda July, Football club appoints Artistic Director, London Film Festival roundup

09/10/2020

Alex Wheatle, Miranda July, Football club appoints Artistic Director, London Film Festival roundup

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Alex Wheatle, Miranda July, Football club appoints Artistic Director, London Film Festival roundup

Alex Wheatle's new novel, Miranda July film Kajillionaire, London Film Festival roundup.

Alex Wheatle's new novel, Miranda July film Kajillionaire, Football club appoints Artistic Director, London Film Festival roundup and the career of Nobel 2020 Winner Louise Gluck

Alex Wheatle discusses his new novel Cane Warriors, based on the true story of a group of slaves in Jamaica who, in 1760, rose up against their white British slavemasters in a fight for the freedom of all enslaved people in the nearby plantations.

As Forest Green Rovers become the UK's first football club to appoint an Artistic Director, Robert Del Naja, founding member of Massive Attack, explains his artistic plans for the club. 

Amanny Mohamed considers how the Covid pandemic has affected this week's London Film Festival and chooses her stand-out films. 

Miranda July tells us about her latest film Kajillionaire, a comedy starring a family of very petty criminals scraping a living who decide to involve an outsider in a scam.   

The American poet Louise Glück is the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. While not exactly a recluse, Louise Glück rarely gives interviews, so we hear from John Mcauliffe of Carcanet Press, Glück’s British publisher for a quarter of a century, to tell us about the poet and her work.

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