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Front Row: BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film review, Girl Bands now

10/09/2021

BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film review, Girl Bands now

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BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film.

Front Row announces the BBC National Short Story Award; Stuart Skelton, singing at Last Night of the Proms; new super hero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings reviewed.

Front Row announces the shortlist for the £15,000, 16th BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.  Judge Fiona Mozley, author of Booker-shortlisted novel Elmet, joins us live to discuss the stories

Australian tenor Stuart Skelton is a fan of a party. And what bigger party in classical music than the Last Night of the Proms?! Stuart will be taking centre stage and singing the traditional ‘Rule Britannia’ as well as a selection of opera arias. He tells John why he’s looking forward to the event, and the all-important outfit reveal.

This month Marvel Studios released its first film with an Asian lead – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.  It’s an origin story that brings together martial arts, Chinese folklore and Hollywood CGI spectacle. Cultural critic Yuan Ren reviews. 

25 years since the release of The Spice Girls debut album, more recently the departure of Jesy Nelson from Little Mix saying she found “the constant pressure of being in a girl group and living up to expectations very hard." And this week, the announcement of the death of Girls Aloud member, Sarah Harding. Dr Julia Downes, who edited Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern, shares her thoughts on the girl band.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Julian May

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