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Front Row: Ins Choi on Kim’s Convenience, why are so many films set in a dystopian future?

Ins Choi on Kim’s Convenience, why are so many films set in a dystopian future?

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ins Choi on Kim’s Convenience, why are so many films set in a dystopian future?

Kim’s Convenience on stage, British Library cyberattack, setting films in the present

Kim's Convenience on stage, British Library cyberattack, do we need more films set in the present?

Ins Choi, the creator of the Netflix hit comedy series, Kim’s Convenience, talks about getting past stereotypes, keeping audiences on edge and bringing his original Korean-Canadian stage version of the show to the Park Theatre in north London.

Tom Sutcliffe asks author and journalist Rachel Cooke and children's author and representative of the Society of Authors Abie Longstaff about the impact of the cyberattack on the British Library. 

Do we need to set more films and tv series in the present? Critics Joe Queenan and Stuart Jeffries consider why so much of what we watch is set in the nostalgic past or a dystopian future.

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