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Front Row: Clio Barnard, Belle and Sebastian, Lisa Allen-Agostini

09/05/2022

Clio Barnard, Belle and Sebastian, Lisa Allen-Agostini

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Filmmaker Clio Barnard on The Essex Serpent and Belle and Sebastian perform live.

Filmmaker Clio Barnard on directing The Essex Serpent, indie pop band Belle and Sebastian play live and Lisa Allen-Agostini on being shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Clio Barnard talks to Samira Ahmed about directing the television adaptation of Sarah Perry’s bestselling novel The Essex Serpent. It stars Claire Danes as Cora Seaborne, a naturalist who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a giant serpent living in the marshes. Cora thinks it might be a living fossil. She meets Will Ransome, the local vicar, played by Tom Hiddleston, is surprised by his openness to scientific ideas, and they form a bond. But a young girl dies and the locals believe Cora is drawing the serpent to them.   

Trinidadian author Lisa Allen-Agostini’s first novel for adults, The Bread The Devil Knead, has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. A dark story domestic violence but laced with humour Lisa talks about writing it in her native Trinidadian dialect.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer:  Julian May

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