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Front Row: Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda

Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda

Golda reviewed, musician Tim Ridout, Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize.

Playwright Simon Stephens discusses the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

The winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature is Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who is best known for his innovative plays.  Playwright Simon Stephens, who has translated his work, talks about the impact of his plays which are widely performed across Europe but little known in the UK.  

Front Row reviews Golda, which stars Helen Mirren as Israeli prime minster Golda Meir, and an exhibition of work by the artist Philip Guston at the Tate Modern in London.  Poet Aviva Dautch and art critic Ben Lukes give their verdict.

Musician Tim Ridout discusses recording Elgar’s famous cello concerto on the viola, a performance for which he won the concerto category at this year’s Gramophone Award.  

The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day is refuge and to mark it Front Row hears a poem on the theme, A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson.

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