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Front Row: Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

Oklahoma on stage and TV's Conversations with Friends reviewed; the Bob Dylan archive; the Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

A review of Daniel Fish's production of Oklahoma! as it opens at the Young Vic in London.

Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; the Bob Dylan archive; the Florence Nightingale Museum reopens.

On today's Front Row review, we discuss directors taking a new look at much loved works: Daniel Fish’s Broadway production of Oklahoma!, now at the Young Vic in London, explores the darker aspects of the musical. Conversations with Friends, the debut novel by bestselling author Sally Rooney, has been adapted for television, following the lockdown success of Normal People. Journalist Tara Joshi and Matt Wolf, London theatre critic of the International New York Times, review them both. 

The Bob Dylan Centre, home to the singer's immense archive, opened this week. Professor Sean Latham, Director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa, discusses its cultural significance.

And as the Florence Nightingale Museum reopens after two years, its director David Green joins Samira to consider the legacy of the mother of modern nursing.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Harry Parker

Image: Members of the cast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma at The Young Vic Theatre, London
(Rebekah Hinds as Gertie Cummings, James Davis as Will Parker and Anoushka Lucas as Laurey Williams)
Photographer credit: Marc Brenner

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