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Front Row: Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition

Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition

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Pet Shop Boys new album, Zendaya's film Challengers, Expressionists at Tate Modern.

Pet Shop Boys on their 15th studio album Nonetheless; reviews of tennis film Challengers and Tate Modern's exhibition Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider.

The Pet Shop Boys are the most successful duo in UK music history. Forty years after their first hit West End Girls they are about to release their new album Nonetheless. Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant join Samira Ahmed to talk about making sense of life through culture, their music being used in hit films like Saltburn and All of Us Strangers and their gay icon status. 

Also joining Samira in the studio are art critic Catherine McCormack and writer Jenny McCartney to review the new tennis film Challengers - which stars Zendaya and Josh O'Connor and Tate Modern's new exhibition Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider.


Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Paula McGrath

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