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Front Row: Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

23/08/2021

Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra this week.

Kalena Bovell on her Proms debut. Bob Stanley pays tribute to Don Everly. Jack Thorne on his McTaggart lecture focusing on disability. Afghan poet Reza Mohammadi from Kabul.

American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with the Chineke! Orchestra this week. She tells Samira about her path into conducting, and why it’s so exciting to be performing music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at the Royal Albert Hall.

Following the death of singer Don Everly over the weekend, Bob Stanley joins us to reflect on the importance, sound and influence of the Everly Brothers. 

Award winning playwright and screen writer Jack Thorne has delivered this year’s McTaggart Lecture at The Edinburgh Television Festival. He argues that representation of disabled people on both sides of the camera are currently woefully inadequate and calls for more to be done to increase their presence, representation and visibility at all levels of TV.

The fate for artists in Afghanistan at the moment is uncertain and may be dangerous. Poet Reza Mohammadi is the head of the Afghan Writers’ Union and he talks to us from Kabul about the fate he and others might face and what he intends to do to protect their artistic freedom .

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Oliver Jones

Main image: Kalena Bovell
Image credit: R.R. Jones

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