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Front Row: Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton

09/11/2022

Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, museums in crisis, photographer Craig Easton.

Film-maker Ryan Coogler on returning to Black Panther, museums in crisis, and Craig Easton on photographing the same family over thirty years

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler discusses returning to Black Panther after the death of Chadwick Boseman and how that experience has inspired the making of the sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

In the wake of this year’s annual Museums Association conference which asked its members to “to reimagine our future if we are going to survive”, Front Row brings together Rowan Brown, CEO of Museums Northumberland and Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Culture, Tourism and Sport Board to discuss how museums are responding to the challenge of the cost of living crisis and rising energy prices.

In 1992 Craig Easton photographed Mandy and Mick Williams and their children for the first time for a series he called Thatcher's Children.  In 2016, he was able to reconnect with the family and has continued to photograph them since then.  As he prepares to publish the photographs in a new book, Craig talks about taking pictures for posterity.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Main image: Nick Ahad and Ryan Coogler

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