Programme Index

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 3^rd Feb 2016, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Arts news with Kirsty lang, including Bryan Cranston on Trumbo, David Hare on adapting Ibsen and Mark Haddon discussing the States of Mind exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:: Bryan Cranston
Interviewed Guest:: David Hare
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Interviewed Guest:: Mark Haddon
Interviewed Guest:: Emily Sargent
Producer:: Rebecca Armstrong

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Janelle Monae, The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, Turner Prize shortlist

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 26^th Apr 2018, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 26^th Apr 2018, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Arts news, interviews and reviews. Janelle Monae on her new album and her film roles including Hidden Figures and Moonlight. Plus new musical The Assassination of Katie Hopkins. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:: Janelle Monae
Interviewed Guest:: Chris Bull
Interviewed Guest:: Matt Winkworth
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Producer:: Hannah Robins

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Mondrian - the complete works; Arts and politics; Playwright Alice Birch; 40 years of Bob Marley's Exodus

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 2^nd Jun 2017, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 2^nd Jun 2017, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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'The Discovery of Mondrian' with Jonathan Jones. Plus how the arts feature in party manifestos, playwright Alice Birch on Anatomy of a Suicide and 40 years of Bob Marley's Exodus. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:: Caroline Julian
Interviewed Guest:: David Powell
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Interviewed Guest:: Alice Birch

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Woman's Hour

Power List 2016, Teenage mums, Artemisia Gentileschi, Sheffield women

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 20^th Oct 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Becoming a Mother with Hollie McNish, feminists with impact, and Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, plus reporter Abigail Hollick accosts strange women in Sheffield. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Rebecca Myatt
Interviewed Guest:: Rosie Boycott
Interviewed Guest:: Lola Okolosie
Interviewed Guest:: Natasha Walter
Interviewed Guest:: Abigail Hollick
Interviewed Guest:: Chante undefined
Interviewed Guest:: Damoya undefined
Interviewed Guest:: Hollie McNish
Interviewed Guest:: Anna Reynolds
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones

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Audra McDonald, John Singer Sargent watercolours, Paula McGrath

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 20^th Jun 2017, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 20^th Jun 2017, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Broadway star Audra McDonald on Billie Holiday; novelist Paula McGrath; the watercolours of John Singer Sargent. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:: Audra McDonald
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Interviewed Guest:: Malcolm Sinclair
Interviewed Guest:: Paula McGrath
Presenter:: Kirsty Lang
Producer:: Edwina Pitman

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Nancy Meyers, Jenny Erpenbeck, Literary modern classics, Turner Prize show

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 25^th Sep 2017, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Mon 25^th Sep 2017, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Romcom director and writer Nancy Meyers; Jenny Erpenbeck on her new novel Go, Went, Gone; what makes a literary modern classic; the 2017 Turner Prize exhibition in Hull. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:: Nancy Meyers
Interviewed Guest:: Alison Hennessey
Interviewed Guest:: Suzi Feay
Interviewed Guest:: Jenny Erpenbeck
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Presenter:: Kirsty Lang
Producer:: Jerome Weatherald

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Kiri, Golden Globes, Gail Honeyman, Contemporary portraiture

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 8^th Jan 2018, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Mon 8^th Jan 2018, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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We review Channel 4 drama Kiri starring Sarah Lancashire and discuss the events of last night's Golden Globes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:: Dreda Say Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:: Gail Honeyman
Interviewed Guest:: Anna Smith
Interviewed Guest:: Gary Oldman
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Interviewed Guest:: Frances Borzello
Producer:: Hannah Robins

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A Fantastic Woman, playing drunk, Lewis Gilbert and paintings under paintings

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 27^th Feb 2018, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 27^th Feb 2018, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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A Fantastic Woman reviewed, revealing paintings under paintings, a tribute to Bond director Lewis Gilbert, and how to play a drunk on stage. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:: Rebecca Root
Interviewed Guest:: Jason Solomons
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Jones
Interviewed Guest:: Jonathan Ree
Interviewed Guest:: Sian Thomas
Interviewed Guest:: Rory Keenan
Interviewed Guest:: Sam Troughton
Producer:: Dymphna Flynn

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