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Front Row: Boris Becker documentary, Commemorating the Good Friday Agreement in art, Artist-led organisations

Boris Becker documentary, Commemorating the Good Friday Agreement in art, Artist-led organisations

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Boris Becker documentary, Commemorating the Good Friday Agreement in art, Artist-led organisations

New Boris Becker film, marking the Good Friday Agreement in art, artist-led organisations.

Oscar-winning film-maker Alex Gibney on his new Boris Becker documentary, sculptures commemorating the Good Friday Agreement, and artist-led organisations discussed.

For his latest project, the Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has turned his attention to the original tennis wunderkind Boris Becker. He  talks about the making of his documentary, Boom! Boom!: The World vs Boris Becker, and what it was like to follow the sports legend during the period which saw him land in jail.

The BBC's Kathy Clugston looks at how artists are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and talks to Gail Ritchie and Raymond Watson about the different approaches they have taken to marking moment when the agreement was made.

What happens when a working artist leads an arts organisation and should artists be leading more organisations? Poet, writer, and performance artist Keisha Thompson, who is also the artistic director and CEO of Contact, the theatre and arts venue in Manchester, and visual artist-curator Gavin Wade, who is also the co-founder and director of Eastside Projects in Birmingham, discuss what artists bring when they are at the helm.

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