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Front Row: Film Chevalier and new TV drama Significant Other reviewed

Film Chevalier and new TV drama Significant Other reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Film Chevalier and new TV drama Significant Other reviewed

Gaming as spectator sport plus reviews of film Chevalier and TV comedy Significant Other.

The cultural phenomenon of game streaming and new film Chevalier and TV drama Significant Other reviewed. Plus Christine and the Queens on his Queer Icon.

Gaming isn’t just something you play, it is also a spectator sport! Comedian and streamer Ellie Gibson and journalist and gamer Marie Le Conte join us to discuss the cultural phenomenon of game streaming. 

Linton Stephens, bassoonist and presenter of Radio 3’s Classical Fix, and filmmaker and journalist Catherine Bray join Front Row to review Chevalier, the new film about the life of the French-Caribbean musician Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.  They’ll also give their verdicts on ITV comedy drama Significant Other about neighbours thrown together in adverse circumstances, starring Katherine Parkinson and Youssef Kerkour.

And to mark the start of Pride month, the UK’s annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, Front Row hears from the French music star Christine and the Queens, who is curating this year’s Meltdown festival. He discusses Jean Genet’s 1943 novel Our Lady of the Flowers and its significance as a queer work of art.

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