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Front Row: Contemporary sari design; the politics of museum labelling; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

Contemporary sari design; the politics of museum labelling; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Contemporary sari design; the politics of museum labelling; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

Sari design exhibition; the politics of museum labels; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

Priya Khanchandani, the curator of The Offbeat Sari exhibition; the politics of museum labelling with critics Louisa Buck and James Marriott; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

Samira Ahmed talks to Priya Khanchandani, the curator of The Offbeat Sari, an exhibition of contemporary saris at the Design Museum in London.

The art critic Louisa Buck and the journalist James Marriott consider the vexed politics of museum labels.

Mat Osman, bass player with the band Suede, joins Samira to discuss his new novel, The Ghost Theatre, which dramatises the lives of boy actors in 1601. 

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner

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