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Front Row: The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed

The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed

The Rolling Stones new album and film Foe reviewed; TV food consultant; Doctors axed.

Ryan Gilbey and Kate Hutchinson review Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones first album for 18 years and the sci-fi film Foe. Filming food for television. The demise of Doctors.

Film critic Ryan Gilbey and music and club culture writer Kate Hutchinson deliver their verdict on Hackney Diamonds - the first new Rolling Stones album for 18 years – and Garth Davis’ film Foe, which is based on a sci-fi novel by Iain Reid and stars Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal.  

Lessons in Chemistry was 2022’s hit novel about a thwarted chemist who becomes an early TV cook. It’s now been turned into a series for Apple TV, starring Brie Larson, complete with authentic 1950s food.  Chef and cookbook author Courtney McBroom, who was the show’s food consultant, gives us an insight into what this involved.

Doctors - the long running BBC TV drama - is ending after more than 23 years. The last episode will be broadcast in December 2024. The show follows the lives of medics and their patients in a GP surgery in the fictional town of Letherbridge. Tonight on Front Row we speak to one of the shows former writers, Joy Wilkinson, who cut her teeth in TV drama writing on the show. She says it was a friendly, creative environment and a great training ground for many writers and actors. 

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