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Front Row: Music festivals, Keeley Hawes, WandaVision reviewed

15/01/2021

Music festivals, Keeley Hawes, WandaVision reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Music festivals, Keeley Hawes, WandaVision reviewed

What hopes for music festivals later this year?

What future is there for music festivals this year in the face of Covid? Keeley Hawes on Finding Alice and other roles. And WandaVision reviewed in our Friday round-up.

What will happen with music festivals this year?  For Front Row,  DJ Emily Dust talks to some of those involved.

Keeley Hawes is one of the most in-demand British actors for TV and film, with exceptional performances in a wide variety of roles. Coming soon for UK viewers there’ll be ITV’s dark comedy Finding Alice; To Olivia – a film about Roald Dahl’s complicated relationship with his wife Patricia Neal; and Russell T Davies’ series for Channel 4, It’s A Sin.  She tells Front Row about filming in lockdown, how she chooses her work and about playing an unsympathetic character  

WandaVision, the first in a massive slate of high-budget new streaming series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes two of the Avengers - Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) - and plants them in a retro sitcom universe, complete with laugh track. Leila Latif scrutinises this first offering in a new era for mainstream entertainment. In a universe far, far away from that, Gen-Zers on TikTok have discovered the sea shanty in a big way. Music journalist Tom Service explains where the shanty comes from and what it might be doing for us in 2021. And Leila and Tom give their cultural picks.

Presenter:  John Wilson
Producer:  Julian May
Studio Manager:  Emma Harth

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