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Front Row: Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy, the V&A’s Chanel exhibition and author Kamila Shamsie.

Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy, the V&A’s Chanel exhibition and author Kamila Shamsie.

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy, the V&A’s Chanel exhibition and author Kamila Shamsie.

Reviews of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Royal Opera House.

Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy, the Chanel exhibition, Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Kamila Shamsie.

When the artist Charlie Mackesy, best-known for his book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, heard Paul Simon’s most recent album, the acclaimed Seven Psalms, he was inspired to create a sketch for each ‘psalm’.  They both join us on Front Row.  

In the last of our interviews with all the authors shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award we talk to Kamila Shamsie about her story Churail. 

Gabrielle Chanel opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Das Rheingold, the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle opens at the Royal Opera House in London.  Head of Fashion at the Telegraph, Lisa Armstrong and writer Philip Hensher join us to review them both.  

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Olivia Skinner

Paul Simon 1:10
Chanel 11:12
Kamila Shamsie 22:04
Das Rheingold 30:52

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