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Front Row: Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture

Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture

Musical theatre legend Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, in tribute to the late composer.

Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi on Our River...Our Sky, and critic David Benedict on the portrayal of nuns in culture.

Musical theatre legend Bonnie Langford performs Stephen Sondheim's I'm Still Here from the musical Follies, in tribute to the late composer and lyricist. The actress, singer and dancer reflects on her career from West End child star to appearing in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, the starry revue show running at London's Gielgud Theatre.

Documentary filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi makes her feature film debut with Our River…Our Sky, set in Baghdad during the winter of 2006, three years after the US-led invasion. Maysoon’s film reflects on how those who remained tried to get on with their lives in a city riven by sectarian violence.

“Nuns are always box office, aren’t they?” said film director Michael Powell and he was right. His 1947 classic Black Narcissus, about missionary nuns in the Himalayas, is being screened around the country; The Sound of Music ran at Chichester Festival Theatre over the summer and midwife nuns will soon return to our screens in Call the Midwife. Critic David Benedict and Samira Ahmed discuss the attraction and importance of nuns in art. 

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Paula McGrath

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