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Front Row: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

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We review a new book on Amazing Grace and the film Rustin.

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster on their new film Nyad, Briony Hanson and Kevin Le Gendre review James Walvin's book Amazing Grace and the film Rustin.

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster star in a new sports biopic Nyad, the eponymous story of Diana Nyad who attempted to swim between Cuba and Florida in her 60s. In an exclusive interview for Front Row, Tom Sutcliffe talks to them about meeting their real-life counterparts, the importance of on screen friendship and getting time to train in the ocean.

Briony Hanson, British Council’s Director of Film and Kevin Le Gendre, author and journalist, review Rustin, a film about Bayard Rustin, the influential gay Black Civil Rights leader responsible for the 1963 March on Washington, and the book Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn by James Walvin. 

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Corinna Jones

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