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Front Row: Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley

04/10/2021

Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley

Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for the stage.

Hilary Mantel on staging The Mirror and the Light, Candice Carty Williams' new YA novella, music from Lianne La Havas and Kieran Hurley on adapting Ibsen.

In tonight's new look, 45 minute long Front Row...

Hilary Mantel talks about turning her 874 page novel, The Mirror and the Light, the third volume in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, into a play of just a couple of hours. 

Kieran Hurley on The Enemy, his adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People for the National Theatre of Scotland. 

Lianne La Havas joins us live in the studio to perform a track from her self-titled Ivor Novello winning album. 

And Candice Carty Williams, author of the besteller, Queenie, on writing her first novella for young adults, Empress and Aniya.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May

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