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Front Row: Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

20/06/2022

Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

Baz Luhrmann on directing his new biopic Elvis; director Mathilde Lopez on her new production of Carmen; Tom, Dick and Harry at the New Vic and Jessica Moor on Little Women.

Director Baz Luhrmann on the making of Elvis, his new biopic of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks.  Director Mathilde Lopez talks about drawing on her heritage for a new production of Bizet's opera Carmen at Longborough Festival Opera.  Theresa Heskins, Artistic Director of the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Tom, Dick and Harry, a new play about the escape attempt from Stalag Luft III in World War II.  And Jessica Moor, author of the feminist thriller Keeper, singles out her 'moment of joy' in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. 

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Producer: Julian May

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