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Front Row: Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

Theaster Gates' new pavilion, Pixar's Lightyear, Kate Bush, Dean Atta's YA novel in verse.

Theaster Gates' new Serpentine pavilion, Pixar's Lightyear, Kate Bush and music back catalogues, and Dean Atta's new Young Adult novel in verse.

Chicago based artist Theaster Gates on The Black Chapel - his design for this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion, which is created each year by world class artists who have included Ai Wei Wei, Olafur Eliasson, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaus.

The latest Pixar film is Lightyear, which tells the story of Buzz, the square-jawed astronaut, before he touched down in Andy’s toybox in Toy Story. After being marooned on a hostile planet with his commander and crew, Buzz valiantly tries to find his way back home through space and time, while, of course, also confronting a threat to the universe's safety. But does this space odyssey fly? Catherine Bray gives her verdict.  

Music back catalogues: as Kate Bush’s 1985 hit Running Up That Hill and decades old-catalogues sell for huge sums, we speak to former Spotify Chief Economist Will Page on the new frontiers of the pop music business, and the impact of streaming, licensing and TikTok.

Poet Dean Atta’s first young adult novel in verse, The Black Flamingo, won the 2020 Stonewall Book Award. He joins Samira to discuss his second, Only On The Weekends, telling the story of Mack - a gay teenager who finds himself at the centre of a queer love triangle as he attempts a long distance relationship between London and Glasgow.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May

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