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Front Row: New Tracey Emin exhibition, The Crown controversy, Walter Presents: The Announcer

03/12/2020

New Tracey Emin exhibition, The Crown controversy, Walter Presents: The Announcer

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Tracey Emin and Edvard Much at the RA, The Crown controversy, The Announcer reviewed

Tracey Emin and Edvard Much at the Royal Academy, The Crown controversy and Walter Presents: The Announcer reviewed.

The fourth in the Netflix series of The Crown, written by Peter Morgan and starring Olivia Coleman as the Queen, has raised questions about its historical accuracy, including from Britain’s Culture Secretary  Oliver Dowden.  Award winning novelist Naomi Alderman and  journalist Simon Jenkins discuss the controversy in the context of the number of recent dramas set in the very recent past about real people.

The Royal Academy in London has reopened its doors and is preparing to show Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul, in which 25 of Emin’s works sit alongside a series of oils and watercolours by the Norwegian artist Emin has been in love with since she was 18, in a shared exploration of grief, loss and longing. 

Described as somewhere between Mad Men and Agatha Christie, ‘The Announcer’ launched on All 4 this week. TV presenter Christine Beauval crashes against the glass ceiling in 1960s France, as she tries to outrun sinister threats on her life. Hannah McGill reviews.

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