Michael Pennington, The Last of the Unjust, Minimalist Music
Michael Pennington discusses his new book about how to become an actor, composers Stephen Montague and Scanner on minimalist music, and Anne Karpf reviews The Last of the Unjust.
Michael Pennington, best known as a stage actor and co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company, discusses his new book Let Me Play the Lion Too: How to be an Actor.
As part of the research for his 1985 landmark documentary about the Holocaust, Shoah, director Claude Lanzmann interviewed Benjamin Murmelstein, the president of the Jewish Council who ran the "model ghetto" of Theresienstadt under the Nazis. Lanzmann has turned the previously unseen footage into The Last of the Unjust, a new documentary about Murmelstein and the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Anne Karpf reviews.
Minimalism was a musical movement born in the Sixties which was an ear-catching, pulsing reaction to the atonality of previous decades, associated with Philip Glass and Britain's Michael Nyman. The composers Stephen Montague and Scanner are taking part in a series of events: Minimalism Unwrapped. They explain the movement's key features.
In the fourth of Front Row's reflections on January, the Royal Academy's Director of Artistic Programmes Tim Marlow discusses a painting that encapsulates this dark time of year.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner.
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Michael Pennington
Duration: 08:21
The Last of the Unjust
Duration: 05:56
Minimalism in Music
Duration: 09:17
Tim Marlow's January
Duration: 03:57
Michael Pennington
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is published on 15th January 2015
Photo credit: Simon Annand
Minimalism in Music
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takes place at Kings Hall from JanÌý7 until Dec 20 2015
is onÌýSaturday, 10 January 2015
takes place on Jan 10, 2015 at 10.30amÌý
is on Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 16:00 -
Photo credit: Moira Gil
The Last of the Unjust
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is in select cinemas from 9th January 2015
January in Turner's Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth
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The Royal Academy's Tim Marlow discusses the essence of January in JMW Turner's paintingÌýSnow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth.
The painting is part of from 10 September 2014Ìý–Ìý25 January 2015
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JMW TurnerÌý
Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth exhibited 1842
Oil paint on canvas
support: 914 x 1219 mm frame: 1233 x 1535 x 145 mm
painting
Tate. Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Michael Pennington Interviewed Guest Stephen Montague Interviewed Guest Scanner Interviewed Guest Anne Karpf Interviewed Guest Tim Marlow Producer Olivia Skinner Broadcast
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