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Front Row: The British Museum’s missing gems, a drinking game drama, National Short Story Award

The British Museum’s missing gems, a drinking game drama, National Short Story Award

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The British Museum’s missing gems, a drinking game drama, National Short Story Award

The British Museum’s missing gems, a drinking game drama, National Short Story Award.

Front Row gets an exclusive look at some of the treasures confirmed as missing by the British Museum, as art dealer, academic and whistleblower Dr Ittai Gradel, who says he bought them in good faith on eBay, returns them.  
 
Deborah Frances White, the comedian and writer behind the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist, joins Samira to discuss her debut play, Never Have I Ever. Named after the confessional drinking game, at its heart is an explosive dinner party dissecting identity politics and infidelity, running at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester.  
 
And we hear how writer Cherise Saywell transformed the making of a cup of coffee by a refugee neighbour into a special act of hospitality in her shortlisted National Short Story Award tale, Guests.

Missing Treasures 1:22
Deborah Frances White 16:05
Cherise Saywell 28:47
Fake Encores 37:29

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