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Front Row: Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney

26/10/2021

Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney

Science Museum greenwashing claims: museum director Ian Blatchford responds.

Controversy at London's Science Museum, Booker Prize Book Group with Patricia Lockwood, Paul McCartney on his song Yesterday.

Patricia Lockwood is the latest author to join our Booker Prize Book Groups.  Three listeners will ask her about No One Is Talking About This, a novel that’s been described as “ferociously original”, exploring a relationship with the online world and how it changes when an incredibly moving event happens in real life.

The Science Museum has come in for criticism after choosing Adani Group, a company involved with fossil fuels, to sponsor their new energy galleries.   Sir Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group explains the thinking behind the partnership. 

As COP approaches, what is the art world doing to become more sustainable? Chris Garrard from Culture Unstained explains why they feel oil and fossil fuel sponsorship of the arts is a problem and Kate McGarry from the Galleries Climate Coalition discusses what they’re doing to try to fix the biggest problems.

And we continue our new series, Inside the Songs, in which Paul McCartney talks about his life and song-writing through the prism of ten key lyrics. Today he offers an analysis of the song, Yesterday.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner

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