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Front Row: Kit Harington, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism

21/02/2022

Kit Harington, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kit Harington, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism

Henry V, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Trevor Nelson on Jamal Edwards, Surrealism.

Kit Harington and Max Webster on Henry V, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Trevor Nelson on Jamal Edwards, Matthew Gale and Chloe Aridjis consider Surrealism’s resonance.

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington and director Max Webster discuss their new production of Henry V, and why they chose to make Henry a more complex character than the usual patriotic hero.

Jan Pieńkowski, who has died aged 85, was a brilliant illustrator of children’s books, including the Meg and Mog series. He was born in Poland and his family fled the Nazis, an experience, along with the fairy tales of Eastern Europe, that influenced his work. Chris Riddell, the former Children's Laureate, pays tribute to Pieńkowski. 

Radio 2 and 1Xtra presenter Trevor Nelson reflects on the life of Jamal Edwards, DJ and founder of the online music platform SBTV. He discusses Jamal's lasting influence on the music scene and his legacy.

A landmark exhibition, Surrealism Beyond Borders at Tate Modern, is seeking to reveal the bigger picture beyond the art movement's Eurocentric and male dominated origins in 1920s France. Samira is joined by the co-curator, Matthew Gale and by Chloe Aridjis, the Mexican-American novelist, to consider Surrealism’s reach and resonance.

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