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Front Row: Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell

Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell

Two new plays about Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania on her Tunisia-set documentary, and folk duo Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell.

Kate Molleson talks to Kaouther Ben Hania about her Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters, which explores the impact of two sisters fleeing to join Islamic State, by bringing in actors to play them alongside the rest of their family in Tunisia. 

We look at two new plays about British composer Benjamin Britten and the light they shed on a life shrouded with mystery and controversy. Kate is joined by Erica Whyman, the director of Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill, which is on at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, and also by Kevin Kelly, the writer of Turning the Screw, which I son at the King’s Head Theatre in London.

Plus live music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell, two young musicians who play with the idea of "English" folk. Their forthcoming EP, 102 Metres East, was recently recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in less than a day.

Presenter: Kate Molleson
Producer Paula McGrath

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