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Front Row: All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

30/06/2022

All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays, opera Sun & Sea, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs

Lawrence Norfolk and Joanna Walsh review Natalia Ginzburg's novel All Our Yesterdays and Lithuanian opera 'Sun & Sea'. And riot grrl to musical stateswoman, Laura Veirs plays live.

Best-selling novelist Lawrence Norfolk and award-winning writer Joanna Walsh review a new edition of All Our Yesterdays, a novel by the acclaimed post-war Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg with a new introduction by author Sally Rooney. 

Lawrence and Joanna also review Sun & Sea, a Lithuanian opera performance about climate change staged on an artificial beach which the audience view from above, which won the is part of LIFT, London’s biennial international theatre festival. Sun & Sea was Lithuania’s national entry for the 2019 Venice Biennale, where it received the festival’s top award, the Golden Lion.

From riot grrl to musical stateswoman, singer songwriter Laura Veirs talks about her new album and playing her father’s guitar. She performs live in the studio.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Eliane Glaser

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