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Front Row: Nicola Benedetti, Mark Simpson, Oscars roundup, Mr Wickham

26/04/2021

Nicola Benedetti, Mark Simpson, Oscars roundup, Mr Wickham

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Nicola Benedetti, Mark Simpson, Oscars roundup, Mr Wickham

Nicola Benedetti and Mark Simpson on the violin concerto he wrote for her.

Nicola Benedetti and Mark Simpson on his new violin concerto. Being Mr Wickham, a play about Austen's most reviled character, Leila Latif's Oscars roundup and Intergalactic review.

Violinist Nicola Benedetti is performing a new concerto by Mark Simpson, who was winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year (as clarinettist) and the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year. Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Mark wrote it specifically with Nicola in mind. We speak with both of them ahead of this Thursday's premiere.

Adrian Lukis discusses his one man show, Being Mr Wickham, which imagines Mr Wickham from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the age of sixty. Adrian  played the young Wickham in the BBC's classic 1995 adaption and is now performing his new play at the country's last remaining Regency theatre, the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. 

Leila Latif reports on the fallout from last night’s Academy Awards, in which Nomadland won Best Picture and, at the age of 83, Sir Anthony Hopkins became the oldest ever actor to win an Oscar.

And Leila reviews Intergalactic, Sky One TV's new science fiction series about a group of female convicts in space who go on the run.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser

Main image: Nicola Benedetti
Image credit: Andy Gotts

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