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Front Row: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn

15/11/2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn

Lin-Manuel Miranda on making his debut as a film director with tick, tick...BOOM!

Lin-Manuel Miranda on his directorial debut, utopia vs. dystopia in climate fiction and Kayleigh Llewellyn on the new series of In My Skin.

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his debut as film director with a cinematic retelling of the stage musical - tick, tick…Boom!  The film stars Andrew Garfield as a musical theatre composer desperate to succeed in his chosen field before his 30th birthday.

In the aftermath of COP 26, with progress made but pledges watered down, how should fiction respond to climate change? Omar El Akkad, journalist and author of American War and Dr Lisa Garforth, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle, discuss whether utopia or dystopia is more in tune with our times and more helpful in a climate emergency.

And, as it returns for a second series writer of the BBC Three comedy drama In My Skin, Kayleigh Llewellyn, tells Samira about how to strike the balance between comedy and tragedy in telling the story of a family beset by mental health issues.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Simon Richardson

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