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Front Row: Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum and TV drama Rise of the Pink Ladies

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum and TV drama Rise of the Pink Ladies

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Ai Weiwei - Making Sense. The new Grease TV prequel. The Good Friday Agreement on stage.

Ai Weiwei's new art exhibition - Making Sense at the Design Museum. The new Grease TV drama prequel Rise of the Pink Ladies. Plus the Good Friday Agreement on stage.

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense. We look at the new exhibition which opens at the Design Museum in London tomorrow.

Plus we review the new Grease prequel Rise of the Pink Ladies, streaming on Paramount+ from tomorrow. 

Samira is joined by reviewers Nancy Durrant, Cultural Editor of the Evening Standard, and critic Karen Krizanovich. 

Plus 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement. Two very different new plays marking the anniversary open this week. Agreement at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast dramatizes the negotiations that led to the deal, and Beyond Belief at the Derry Playhouse is a musical about the life of Irish politician John Hume - one of the architects of the peace agreement. Steven Rainey talks to the creative teams behind both productions about marking the moment. 

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Producer: Jerome Weatherald

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