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Front Row: Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up

25/01/2022

Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up

Actor Martin Freeman and writer Tony Schumacher on new drama The Responder.

Actor Martin Freeman and writer Tony Schumacher on new drama The Responder and the case for cultural levelling up with Professor Katy Shaw, Dr Abigail Gilmore and Lord Parkinson.

The Responder, a five-part BBC drama broadcast on consecutive nights this week, was written by ex-police response officer Tony Schumacher. He joins Samira along with Martin Freeman, who stars as the disillusioned police responder Chris Carson.

A cross party group of MPs from the north of England have just made the case for cultural levelling up in a new report, ahead of the Government's much anticipated white paper on its broader levelling up agenda. We hear from the author of the report, Professor Katy Shaw of Northumbria University and arts policy expert Dr. Abigail Gilmore of the University of Manchester and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre. Screen Yorkshire’s chief executive Caroline Cooper Charles and Jamie Andrews, Head of Culture and Learning at The British Library, tell us about what they're doing to invest in culture in and around Leeds. Samira is also joined in the studio by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, Minister for the Arts in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Simon Richardson

Photo: Martin Freeman Credit: BBC

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