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Front Row: Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon

Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon

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Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and folk singer Cara Dillon.

Front Row is live from Belfast with performance from folk singer Cara Dillon and news of a missing artwork by Rodin.

Two adaptations of Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco open this month, one in Belfast and a Welsh language adaptation in Cardiff.  The adaptors Patrick J O’Reilly and Manon Steffan Ros both join Kathy Clugston to discuss how this 1950s play about the rise of Fascism speaks to audiences now.  

Singer Cara Dillon is known globally for her interpretations of traditional Irish songs.  As she performs at the Belfast International Arts Festival, she explains why she’s taking a new direction with her upcoming album, the first time she’s released an album of original songs. 

In the first of Front Row’s interviews with the authors shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, Paul Lynch talks about Prophet Song, his dystopian novel which imagines a future in which Ireland is in the grips of an oppressive regime. 

And as Glasgow Museums say that they are unable to locate a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, arts correspondent Jan Patience explains that it may not be the only major work of art that’s gone missing. 

Presenter: Kathy Clugston
Producer: Olivia Skinner

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