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Front Row: Emerald Fennell, Benin Bronzes, Winner of the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation

25/03/2021

Emerald Fennell, Benin Bronzes, Winner of the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation

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Emerald Fennell on her revenge thriller, Promising Young Woman, which stars Carey Mulligan

Emerald Fennell on her darkly comic revenge thriller, Promising Young Woman, which stars Carey Mulligan.

Emerald Fennell is the director and writer of Promising Young Woman, a darkly comic revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan. The film is nominated for five Academy Awards and six BAFTAs.  Emerald is also a successful actress, most recently starring as the then-Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown as well as a cameo in the movie. We hear about what sparked the film, reactions to it and what it’s like to combine direction, writing and acting. 

The Humboldt Forum in Berlin is currently planning to return its entire collection of Benin bronzes to Nigeria, looted in the late 19th century in the era of European colonial expansion, and Aberdeen University has just announced it is going to be the first UK institution to return its own Benin bronze sculpture to the country. Alice Procter, author of the new book The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in our Museums discusses the significance of these two examples of restitution.

One of the most published Chinese poets in English Yang Lian, has won the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation along with his long time translator Brian Holton. He talks to Samira Ahmed from his home in exile in Berlin about his prize winning anthology Anniversary Snow as well as how his mother’s sudden death whilst he was being “re-educated” during China’s Cultural Revolution led to him becoming a poet

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May
Studio Engineer: Emma Harth

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