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Front Row: Barry Male Voice Choir, new play Romeo and Julie, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden

Barry Male Voice Choir, new play Romeo and Julie, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Barry Male Voice Choir, new play Romeo and Julie, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden

Barry Male Voice Choir, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden.

Playwright Gary Owen on his new play Romeo and Julie, the story of young lovers in Cardiff, and the Barry Male Voice choir perform live in the Front Row studio.

On St David's Day Front Row is coming from Cardiff with Huw Stephens bringing the latest arts and culture stories of Wales. 

Welsh National Opera’s latest production is Blaze of Glory. The librettist Emma Jenkins and composer David Hackbridge Johnson talk to Huw Stephens about their new opera. Set in a Welsh Valleys’ village in the 1950s, it follows the a group of miners who raise spirits following a pit disaster by reforming their male voice choir. 

Dawn Bowden, Deputy Minister for Arts and Sports, and Chief Whip in the Welsh Government, discusses cultural policy in Wales.

Gary Owen talks about his new play Romeo and Julie, the story of young lovers in the Cardiff district of Splott.  They’re faced with circumstances that threaten to separate them but there the similarity to Shakespeare ends.

And the Barry Male Voice choir, who are involved in the production of Blaze of Glory, perform live in the Front Row studio.

Presenter: Huw Stephens
Producer:  Julian May and Rebecca Stratford

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