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Woman's Hour

Dame Julie Moore; Lynne Segal; Ali Smith on Antigone

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Dame Julie Moore, Lynne Segal on The Perils and Pleasures of Ageing, and Ali Smith on rewriting Antigone for children. Jenni Murray presents the female perspective. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Julie Moore
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Child
Interviewed Guest:
Victoria Lambert
Interviewed Guest:
Lynne Segal
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Edith Hall
Interviewed Guest:
Marina McCullen

Open Book

Ali Smith on How to Be Both

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ali Smith, who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for the third time for How to Be Both. Plus Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie and an insider tip. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Stella Duffy
Interviewed Guest:
Kamila Shamsie

Front Row

Jessica Chastain, Ali Smith, Bob Copper at 100, the Art of the Self-Portrait

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain on A Most Violent Year, a review of self-portraiture, Costa Novel Award-winner Ali Smith, and a remembrance of folk legend Bob Copper. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Producer:
Ellie Bury
Interviewed Guest:
Jessica Chastain
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Collins
Interviewed Guest:
Ben Copper
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Boden

Front Row

Ali Smith, Osmo Vänskä, the Nicholas Brothers, Islamic Art & the Supernatural, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Ali Smith discusses her new Brexit-era novel, Osmo Vanska undertakes all the symphonies of Sibelius, Islamic art that is figurative, and the brothers who danced Stormy Weather. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Osmo Vanska
Interviewed Guest:
Stuart Thomas
Interviewed Guest:
Francesca Leoni
Interviewed Guest:
Tariq Ramadan

Front Row

Pirates of Penzance, Brighton Festival, Francois Ozon, New Culture Secretary

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

A review of the English National Opera's production of The Pirates of Penzance, a report from 2015's Brighton Festival and film director Francois Ozon. With Samira Ahmed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Kemp
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
François Ozon
Interviewed Guest:
Quentin Letts
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Front Row

Joel Meyerowitz, The Girl on the Train on stage, the Famous Women Dinner Service

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Veteran photographer Joel Meyerowitz, The Girl on the Train at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service, and Hugh Grant's career. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Joel Meyerowitz
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Darren Clarke
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Travers
Interviewed Guest:
Nick Ahad
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Bullimore

Front Row

The art and craft of translating fiction

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Novelist Naomi Alderman reports on the art of translating fiction, with writers Ian McEwan, AS Byatt, Ali Smith and David Baddiel, and joins three translators tackling Jules Verne. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Naomi Alderman
Interviewed Guest:
Ian McEwan
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
David Baddiel
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

Free Thinking

Thomas Ostermeier, Joseph O'Neill, Ali Smith

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

With Anne McElvoy. Writers Ali Smith and Joseph O'Neill discuss depicting Renaissance art and Dubai, and Thomas Ostermeier talks about directing Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Thomas Ostermeier
Interviewed Guest:
Joseph O'Neill
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Producer:
Georgia Catt
Editor:
Robyn Read