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Front Row: Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man reviewed, conductor Semyon Bychkov

Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man reviewed, conductor Semyon Bychkov

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man reviewed, conductor Semyon Bychkov

David Leitch's Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt reviewed

Reviews of  new movie Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's latest novel, The Last White Man. Plus Russian conductor Semyon Bychkov

Tom Sutcliffe and guest reviewers Bidisha and Amon Warmann discuss Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt. It's a vivid mixture of comedy and violence from director David Leitch, and is based on a thriller by Japanese author, Kōtarō Isaka. We also discuss Mohsin Hamid's latest novel, The Last White Man - a fable about what happens when white people's skin begins to turn brown.
 
Conductor Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms in a programme of a programme of Czech and Russian music. He left the USSR for the USA in 1975 and is currently  Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic. He talks music and politics too - he's spoken out and taken part in protests against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but has also criticised the dropping of Russian works from concerts around the world. 

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Producer: Paul Waters

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