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Front Row: Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English

Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on his film Little English

Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English

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Percival Everett's novel Dr No; Pravesh Kumar on film Little English; Yeats & smartphones.

Author Percival Everett on his novel Dr No, director Pravesh Kumar on his film Little English, and the new WB Yeats smartphones poetry and places trail.

Author Percival Everett on his novel Dr No; Director Pravesh Kumar on his film Little English; the new Yeats Smartphones poetry trail in Bedford

Award-winning US novelist Percival Everett on his surreal new book, Dr No – in which unlikely heroes and uber-wealthy super villains chase after a box containing absolutely nothing.

Pravesh Kumar has been running a theatre company for over two decades and last year received an MBE in the New Year Honours List for services to theatre. As he makes his debut as a filmmaker with romantic comedy Little English - centred on a British South Asian family living in Slough - he discusses the importance of nuanced portrayals and overturning stereotypes.

It’s a century this year since W. B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize in literature for his poetry, ‘which…gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.’ This is marked by a new guided, smartphone app trail around places where he lived and that influenced him early in life. It is narrated and with poems read by Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds. But it is not, as you might assume, in Ireland. Front Row reports from the launch.  

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May

(Picture of Percival Everett. Photographer credit: Nacho Goberna)

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