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Front Row: La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed

La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed

We review film La Chimera, TV series Bodkin and novel Great Expectations. Plus we take a look at Spotify's latest figures on how it pays the music industry.

La Chimera is a new film directed by Alice Rohrwacher and starring Josh O’Connor as a British archaeologist who gets caught up in a network of stolen Etruscan artefacts in 1980s Italy. 

Bodkin is a new comedy thriller series from Netflix starring Will Forte about a trio of true crime podcasters who head to rural Ireland to solve a mystery. 

and Great Expectations, the hotly anticipated debut novel from the New Yorker theatre critic Vinson Cunningham about a young man in America who gets swept up in a presidential campaign.  Jo Hamya and Boyd Hilton join Nick Ahad to review.

And we take a look at Spotify's latest figures on how it pays the music industry with Will Page.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Corinna Jones

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