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Front Row: Vocal ensemble Stile Antico, Fay Weldon obituary, director John Strickland

Vocal ensemble Stile Antico, witch lit, director John Strickland

Vocal ensemble Stile Antico, Fay Weldon obituary, director John Strickland

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Stile Antico perform the music of William Byrd live.

Vocal ensemble Stile Antico perform William Byrd. Kate Mosse and Julie T Wallace on Fay Weldon. Director John Strickland on eco-thriller series The Rig.

The English composer William Byrd died 400 years ago. To mark this the acclaimed vocal ensemble Stile Antico is about to release an album of his music.  Five of the twelve members of the ensemble come to the Front Row studio to sing and talk about Byrd's extraordinary and moving music.

The author and founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kate Mosse and actor Julie T Wallace, who played Ruth in the BBC TV production of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, join Front Row to mark the work of writer Fay Weldon, whose death was announced today.

Veteran director John Strickland talks about filming The Rig, a new 6-part big budget Amazon Prime eco-thriller set on an oil rig cut off from all communication in the North Sea. An ensemble cast of familiar faces from Line of Duty, Game of Thrones and Schitt's Creek contend with a mysterious deep-sea entity.

And Zaffar Kunial reads his poem Brontë Taxis from his TS Eliot Prize-nominated collection England's Green.

Presenter:  Samira Ahmed
Producer:  Sarah Johnson

Photograph of Stile Antico credit:  Kaupo Kikkas

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