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Front Row: Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and is vinyl manufacturing at breaking point?

12/01/2022

Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and is vinyl manufacturing at breaking point?

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Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and the downside of the vinyl boom.

Robert Preston on his award-winning biography of Robert Maxwell, and the problems in pressing plants caused by our rediscovered love of vinyl.

Kirsty Lang speaks to John Preston who has won the Costa biography award for Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell.

As a new vinyl pressing plant opens in Middlesbrough, we hear about the long delays facing bands because of the LP renaissance. 

And filmmaker Jessica Kingdon discusses her award-winning observational documentary Ascension. Filmed in 51 locations across China, Ascension explores the pursuit of the Chinese Dream through the lives of the people living it, accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack.

Presented by Kirsty Lang
Produced by Laura Northedge

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