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Front Row: Joe Wright on Cyrano, Costa poetry winner Hannah Lowe, A Hero

06/01/2022

Joe Wright on Cyrano, Costa poetry winner Hannah Lowe, A Hero

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Joe Wright on Cyrano, Costa poetry winner Hannah Lowe, A Hero

Director Joe Wright on his new musical Cyrano.

Director Joe Wright on his new musical Cyrano, poet Hannah Lowe on winning the Costa prize and our panel review Iranian film A Hero.

In his latest film Cyrano, director Joe Wright has tackled the 1897 French verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac. He joins Tom Sutcliffe to discuss turning a classic into a musical and dispensing with Cyrano’s prominent nose.

The winner of the Costa Poetry Award Hannah Lowe talks about her collection The Kids, an autobiographical series of sonnets which paint a picture of the decade she spent teaching in an inner city London school. She tells us why an age-old form mastered by Shakespeare is perfectly suited to tackling the politics of race and class in contemporary Britain. 

And critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Kohinoor Sahota discuss the palme d'or winning Iranian film A Hero.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Laura Northedge
Production Co-ordinator: Lizzie Harris

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