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Front Row: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel, Spitting Image

16/02/2023

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel, Spitting Image

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel, Spitting Image

Animation Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel's art, Al Murray on Spitting Image

Comedian Al Murray on putting Spitting Image on stage, the Oscar-nominated animation Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and a new exhibition of US artist, Alice Neel.

On today's Front Row, Samira Ahmed talks to stand-up comedian Al Murray about putting the puppets of the political satire TV show Spitting Image on stage for the first time, in a new production, Spitting Image - Idiots Assemble, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. 
And she discusses the Oscar and Bafta-nominated animation Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and a new exhibition of work by the American visual artist, Alice Neel, which opens at the Barbican in London today, with arts critics Hanna Flint and Louisa Buck.

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