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Front Row: Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witches and the fall in female film-makers

Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witches and the fall in female film-makers

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Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witchcraft and the fall in female film-makers.

Poet Anthony Joseph on winning the TS Eliot prize for poetry, and the rise of 'witch lit'.

Over the last three weeks Front Row has broadcast a poem by each of the 10 writers shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. The winner was announced last night: Anthony Joseph, for his collection Sonnets for Albert. Anthony talks to Samira Ahmed about his sequence of sonnets exploring his relationship with his often absent father, winning the prize and the attraction of the sonnet form.

Research from the film charity Birds Eye View shows that the number of female made films released in UK cinemas fell by 6% last year.  The charity’s director Melanie Iredale and film director Sally El Hosaini discuss why women are failing to progress in the UK film industry. 

Books about witches and witchcraft are increasingly popular, with several new novels published this year.  Authors Emilia Hart, Kirsty Logan and Anya Bergman, who have all written about witches, explain why this subject matter provided such a rich source of inspiration.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner
Image:  Antony Julius, picture credit: Adrian Pope

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