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Front Row: Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, Helen McCrory remembered, Mare of Easttown

16/04/2021

Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, Helen McCrory remembered, Mare of Easttown

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Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, and Helen McCrory remembered.

Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, Susannah Clapp remembers Helen McCrory, Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown reviewed, Cyber crime in the publishing world.

Director Deborah Warner discusses her new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, which opens at the Teatro Real in Madrid on Monday. The staging of this multinational co-production has become significantly more difficult in the wake of Brexit and more recently she has had to adapt to the numerous challenges posed by Covid. 

The death was announced today at the age of 52 of Helen McCrory, whose credits included Peaky Blinders, The Queen, Harry Potter and many highly-praised stage roles including Medea and The Deep Blue Sea. Theatre critic Susannah Clapp reflects on her contribution to stage and screen.   

Cybercrime is a lucrative source for fraudsters; companies’ customer accounts, personal bank details, and pension funds, presenting regular targets for the digital criminals.  Now it seems that the world of publishing is attracting the online scammers. Heloise Wood, Deputy News Editor of The Bookseller, shares her latest scoop.

Mare of Easttown is a new HBO/Sky Atlantic series starring Kate Winslet as a small-town Pennsylvanian detective investigating a local murder as life crumbles around her. Lanre Bakare (Guardian arts and culture correspondent)  and Jen Chaney (New York Magazine’s Vulture TV critic) discuss the drama with Kirsty

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Jerome Weatherald

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