Front Row

Original version

BBC Radio 4 LW

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

BBC Radio 4 FM

Front Row: Nick Hornby, dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou

Nick Hornby, dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Nick Hornby, dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou

Nick Hornby on Dickens & Prince, Cecilia Iliesiu, poets Derek Owusu & Anthony Anaxagorou

Author Nick Hornby on the shared 'genius' of Dickens and Prince, Cecilia Iliesiu on making ballet accessible worldwide, and poets Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou.

Author Nick Hornby on the similarities of Dickens and Prince, as he publishes his new book on the “genius” of the Victorian novelist and the sex-funk pop musician.

On the eve of World Ballet Day, we talk to Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer, Cecilia Iliesiu, about the new project she has co-founded – Global Ballet Teachers - to make the teaching of ballet more accessible to ballet teachers worldwide.  We also hear from Vivian Boateng, a ballet teacher based in Accra, Ghana, who has been taking part in the Global Ballet Teachers project.

Derek Owusu has written a book about his mother, who came to Britain from Ghana. But rather than a prose memoir he has imagined the journey of her life as a long poem titled Losing the Plot. Anthony Anaxagorou also writes about his family, life here and in Cyprus, where they came from, in his new collection Heritage Aesthetics.  Rather than interviewing the two writers separately Front Row asked each to read the other's. Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou join Front Row to discuss their work.

Photo credit for Nick Hornby:  Parisa Taghizadeh


Presenter:  Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:  Kirsty McQuire

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Nick Hornby, dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4