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Front Row: Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed

Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed

Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed.

Mean Girls is 20 years old and has its cult following - but will fans love the new film of the hit Broadway musical of the same name?   Critics Sarah Ditum and Ashley Hickson-Lovence give their verdict on the new version.  They also discuss with Tom Sutcliffe the new novel by Hisham Matar - My Friends, which explores themes of friendship and exile, as well as including real-life events like the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984 and the killing of General Gadaafi in 2011. 

And Mairi Campbell - who's about to start a new tour of her critically acclaimed Auld Lang Syne show - plays live in the studio.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Paul Waters

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