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Front Row: Orlando Bloom; Liverpool Biennial; Elizabeth Knox

Orlando Bloom; Liverpool Biennial; Elizabeth Knox

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Orlando Bloom; Liverpool Biennial; Elizabeth Knox

Orlando Bloom on his film Retaliation, and the Liverpool Biennial gets underway.

Orlando Bloom on his intense film Retaliation and new career choices, the delayed Liverpool Biennial gets underway, and apocalyptic new fantasy The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox.

Orlando Bloom talks to Samira Ahmed about taking on a very different kind of role in his intense and visceral film Retaliation, and the new career challenges he’s excited about.

As the delayed Liverpool Biennial gets underway – showing only online and outdoor work for the moment because of the restrictions on galleries opening – art critic and editor of The Double Negative cultural website Mike Pinnington considers how the commissioned artists have responded to the theme of ‘the body’, and how the city is preparing to re-open its doors.

Best selling New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox discusses her new novel The Absolute Book, an apocalyptic fantasy novel which explores contemporary issues including climate change through a fusion of ancient myths, other worlds and a murder mystery in a spell binding story.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Simon Richardson

Image: Retaliation (2017)
Credit: Zee Studios International

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