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Front Row: Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones - Death to 2020

24/12/2020

Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones - Death to 2020

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones - Death to 2020

Death to 2020, Le Gateau Chocolat, Neil Gaiman, winner of Radio 3's carol competition.

Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones's new mocumentary, Le Gateau Chocolat's favourite parties, Neil Gaiman twists fairy tales, and a new carol set to words by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones discuss their new Netflix mocumentary Death to 2020, a documentary-style film that tells the story of the year we’ll be glad to put behind us, featuring fictitious figures played by the likes of Hugh Grant, Samuel L Jackson and Tracey Ullman.

Opera diva, drag artist and cabaret turn Le Gateau Chocolat concludes our increasingly wistful festive series on the best parties on screen with an ode to the don of the movie party, Baz Luhrmann. 

John talks to Neil Gaiman about his latest Radio 4 drama adaptation, The Sleeper and the Spindle, a Christmas-time fairy tale brought to life by award-winning dramatist Katie Hims. Starring Penelope Wilton, Gwendoline Christie and Ralph Ineson as well as Neil Gaiman himself, it's a new tale drawing on traditional folk stories, interweaving Snow White and Sleeping Beauty in an enchanting drama that puts the women firmly centre stage.

In September Radio 3 challenged listeners to compose a tune for the poem ‘Christmas Carol’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar. More than a thousand people entered. Tthe judges whittled these down to a shortlist of six, listeners voted and the winner is James Walton. We’ll hear his carol, sung by the BBC Singers, and reveal more about Paul Laurence Dunbar, the pioneering black American writer who wrote the lyrics.

Presenter: John Wilson 
Producer: Julian May

Image: Tracey Ullman (QUEEN ELIZABETH II) in Death to 2020
Image Credit: Keith Bernstein/Netflix © 2020

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