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Front Row: Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

21/07/2022

Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

A review of the film Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.

Reviews from Sarah Hall and Agnès Poirier on the movie Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth, composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe performs live, writer Alan Grant remembered.

Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, is a film dramatising the events of the horrifying night on April 15, 2019 when the cathedral that symbolises so much in France and beyond started to burn. Milk Teeth is the second novel from Jessica Andrews, whose debut Saltwater won the Portico Prize in 2020. It explores appetite, control and desire in a young woman from the north of England who finds herself in the heat of Spain. The writer Sarah Hall and the journalist Agnès Poirier review both.

Ahead of her upcoming Proms performance in the Royal Albert Hall, composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe joins Tom Sutcliffe to perform one of her original compositions live in the studio. Walshe’s soundscape has been described as transcending the contemporary classical music world and she explains her approach to composing original works.

And Sam Leith, literary editor of The Spectator magazine, joins Tom to remember the comic book writer Alan Grant, whose death was announced today. 

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Kirsty McQuire


Photo: a still from the film Notre-Dame On Fire Photo Credit: Mickael Lefevre

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