Front Row

Original version

BBC Radio 4 LW

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

BBC Radio 4 FM

Front Row: Van Gogh Self Portraits, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis

31/01/2022

Van Gogh Self Portraits, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Van Gogh Self Portraits, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis

Van Gogh and his self portraits discussed, ahead of a major exhibition

Curator Karen Serres and art historian Martin Bailey discuss a new exhibition of Van Gogh's Self Portraits,director Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis play reviewed

Van Gogh’s self portraits have defined our sense of his inner life. As a new exhibition gathers many of them together for the first time, The Courtauld’s Curator of Paintings, Karen Serres and the art historian, Martin Bailey join Tom Sutcliffe to consider what they reveal about an artist we feel we know so well.

Director Joanna Hogg tells Tom about the making of the sequel to her semi-autobiographical 2019 film The Souvenir, starring real life mother and daughter, Tilda Swinton and Honor Swinton Byrne.

Mark Rylance stars in Dr Semmelweis, a new play at the Bristol Old Vic about a pioneering doctor who struggled to make the establishment heed his warnings about hand hygiene. Professor Tim Cook, a consultant intensive care doctor in Bath gives his verdict on the play.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Tim Prosser

IMAGE: Self Portrait as a Painter by Vincent Van Gogh (December- February 1888) CREDIT: Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Vincent Van Gogh Foundation

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Van Gogh Self Portraits, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4