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Front Row: Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered.

Film director Michael Winterbottom discusses his new TV drama which follows Boris Johnson's first months as prime minister and Welsh multiplatform arts project GALWAD.

Michael Winterbottom discusses writing and directing a SKY TV drama, This England, starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson during his tumultuous first months as Prime Minister and the first wave of the COVID pandemic.

GALWAD, an ambitious, multiplatform arts project set in Wales, imagines what it would be like if we could receive messages from people living in 2052. Audiences can follow the story as it unfolds across the week, both online and on social media, and watch a broadcast of the whole event on Sky Arts.  The lead producer Claire Doherty and lead writer Owen Sheers, explain why they wanted to push the boundaries of storytelling.

The literary critic John Mullan and the novelist Katherine Rundell discuss the life and work of Hilary Mantel.

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