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Front Row: The Light in the Hall, The Shipping Forecast photographs, Nell Zink

The Light in the Hall, The Shipping Forecast photographs, Nell Zink

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Director Andy Newbery, photographer Mark Power and author Nell Zink.

Director Andy Newbery on The Light in the Hall, photographer Mark Power on The Shipping Forecast, and Nell Zink on her new novel Avalon.

The Light in the Hall, a crime drama starring Joanna Scanlan, has launched on Channel 4 following its previous incarnation in Welsh on S4C, as Y Golau. Director Andy Newbery joins Shahidha to discuss directing a bilingual ‘back to back’ TV production with a single cast and crew.

Photographer Mark Power discusses his seminal book The Shipping Forecast, which has been re-released with over 100 previously unseen photographs.

And the writer Nell Zink, known for her dark humour, discusses her latest novel, Avalon, which focuses on the life of the indefatigable teenager, Bran, who grows up in the pie-less version of America and embarks on a contradictory love affair.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Eliane Glaser

Image: Joanna Scanlan as Sharon Roberts in TV drama The Light in the Hall on Channel 4/ Y Golau on S4C.

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