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Front Row: Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.

The super-fans of the musical Operation Mincemeat on investigating the forgotten story of the real woman that one of the characters is based on.

Front Row reviews some of the week’s cultural highlights.  Tom Sutcliffe is joined by film critic Hanna Flint and Will Hodgkinson, chief pop and rock critic for The Times, to discuss Cold War, a new musical with music from Elvis Costello, and animated film Chicken Run: Return of the Nugget.

Luke Jones reports on the super-fans of the musical Operation Mincemeat, who have been investigating the story of one of the real characters involved, an MI5 secretary called Hester Legett.  As a plaque is unveiled in her honour, Luke hears why this musical has such a cult following. 

In May of this year a South Korean art student added his own footnote to Maurizio Cattelan’s controversial artwork Comedian – a fresh banana stuck to the gallery wall with duct tape – by pulling it free and eating it. Niki Segnit, the author of The Flavour Thesaurus, muses on the use of food in art. 

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Corinna Jones

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