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Front Row: Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed

Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed

Ranjit Singh at the Wallace collection and the BAFTA games awards

Back to Black the new Amy Winehouse biopic, James by Percival Everett and the Ranjit Singh exhibition at the Wallace Collection reviewed.

Back to Black is the Amy Winehouse biopic out this week and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.  
James is Percival Everett’s retelling of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, narrated by the enslaved Jim.
The Wallace collection spotlights Ranjit Singh, the Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and the treasure trove of weapons that kept him in power.   
Writer Dreda Say Mitchell and journalist and broadcaster Bidisha join Tom Sutcliffe to review.  
We also look at the BAFTA games awards with scummy mummy and gamer Ellie Gibson.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Corinna Jones

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