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Front Row: Film-maker Sally Potter on her first music album, the British Library turns 50, romance in later life on stage

Film-maker Sally Potter on her first music album, the British Library turns 50, romance in later life on stage

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Film-maker Sally Potter on her first music album, the British Library turns 50, romance in later life on stage

Film-maker Sally Potter has released her first album as a singer-songwriter, Pink Bikini.

Film-maker Sally Potter on releasing her first album of music, the British Library turns 50, and romance in later life on stage.

Sally Potter is best known as a filmmaker- from Orlando starring Tilda Swinton to The Roads Not Taken with Javier Bardem. But she's also a musician, collaborating on the scores for all of her films. Now Sally has released her first album as a singer-songwriter, Pink Bikini and joins Nick Ahad to reflect on this musical coming of age.

This month the British Library celebrates its 50th anniversary - a half century of caring for the UK’s research collection.  For Front Row, reporter JP Devlin hears the stories of the people gathered at the UK’s national library for their own unique purposes.

Why are love stories so often centred on the young? Two playwrights join Nick to discuss dramatizing love in later life. Jennifer Lunn has written Es & Flo about two women in a four decades-long relationship that began in Greenham Common.  In Ben Weatherill's Frank and Percy, two men, neither of whom will see sixty again, embark on a romance after meeting while walking their dogs.  

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

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