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Front Row: Kimchilia Bartoli, Reviews of This is Going to Hurt, Flee and Louise Bourgeois

Kimchilia Bartoli, Reviews of This is Going to Hurt, Flee and Louise Bourgeois

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kimchilia Bartoli, Reviews of This is Going to Hurt, Flee and Louise Bourgeois

Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim on the creation of his drag persona Kimchilia Bartoli.

Countertenor Kimchilia Bartoli and reviews of the film Flee, TV series This is Going to Hurt, and Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.

Korean-American countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim gives an insight into the creation of his drag persona, Kimchilia Bartoli, a tribute to the Italian opera diva, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. Justin will be performing as Kimchilia at this year’s Classical Vauxhall festival in The Royal Opera House is Burning, a recital inspired by the drag balls of 1980s Harlem.

Dr Ronx Ikharia reviews This is Going to Hurt, the BBC’s adaptation of Adam Kay’s brutal memoir of working as a doctor in a London hospital.

Critics Charlie Porter and Olivia Laing review Oscar-nominated animated documentary Flee and Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, an exhibition of the artist’s later work at the Hayward Gallery.

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