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Free Thinking

Simon Russell Beale; Derek Jarman

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Actor Simon Russell Beale discusses playing the role of King Lear and composer Simon Fisher Turner talks about working with Derek Jarman. Presented by Samira Ahmed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Russell Beale
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Fisher Turner
Interviewed Guest:
Tacita Dean
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Savage
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Roscoe
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Healey
Producer:
Laura Thomas

The Film Programme

James Dean remembered; Whales in cinema; Steven Knight on Locke

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

James Dean remembered; Steven Knight discusses his thriller Locke, set entirely in a car driving down the M6; Philip Hoare discusses the representation of whales in cinema. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest:
Steven Knight
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Eyre
Interviewed Guest:
David Thomson
Interviewed Guest:
Terence Stamp
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Savage
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Hoare
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Hymns

Front Row

Li Cunxin, Playing William Shakespeare, How art responded to the atomic bomb

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Former ballet star Li Cunxin on growing up in Mao's China, the art of playing William Shakespeare and how popular culture has responded to the atomic bomb. With Samira Ahmed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Li Cunxin
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Guerrier
Interviewed Guest:
Kim Newman
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Savage
Interviewed Guest:
Gareth Somers

Front Row

Samuel Pepys, Jon Savage, Dana Fouras and Russell Maliphant

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson, including a look at the exhibition Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution, plus Jon Savage talks about his novel 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Blyth
Interviewed Guest:
Kristian Martin
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Savage
Interviewed Guest:
Dana Fouras
Interviewed Guest:
Russell Maliphant