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Front Row: Paul Thomas Anderson, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, Postcard from Doncaster

22/12/2021

Paul Thomas Anderson, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, Postcard from Doncaster

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Paul Thomas Anderson, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, Postcard from Doncaster

Paul Thomas Anderson talks about his new film Licorice Pizza.

Paul Thomas Anderson discusses his new film Licorice Pizza, theatre, artists and music in Doncaster, and Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden go a-wassailing.

Paul Thomas Anderson discusses directing and writing his new romantic comedy, Licorice Pizza, starring Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper and Tom Waits. The film is a coming-of-age story, complicated by the fact that the protagonist is 15 and his love interest, 25.

In our Christmas card from Doncaster, the host of the BBC’s Yorkshire-cast and local boy, James Vincent, meets Deborah Rees, Director of CAST Theatre and Connor Bryson, an actor appearing in the BSL integrated pantomime, Aladdin. Street art duo Nomad Clan reflect on the making of the UK’s longest mural, and local musician Skinny Pelembe shares his lockdown Song for South Yorkshire.

Last night, the longest of the year, musicians Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden intended to bring good cheer, light and joyful music with a wassail concert, but the omicron variant put paid to that. Instead Eliza and Jon will be bringing some of what was planned to Front Row, explaining the ancient tradition of wassailing – the word comes from the Anglo Saxon for good health - and singing and playing.

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Producer Julian May

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