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Alan Parker, The Game, Eleanor Rees

Arts news and interviews, including Alan Parker on Bugsy Malone, a review of new spy thriller TV series The Game, and poet Eleanor Rees on her latest collection Blood Child.

Alan Parker made his name with the much loved film Bugsy Malone, which is rarely seen in professional theatre as he has been reluctant to grant permission, until now. Bugsy Malone opens tonight at the newly developed Lyric Hammersmith, and Alan and artistic director Sean Holmes discuss the new production.

The Game is a new spy thriller series on ±«Óãtv Two, set in 1970s London, when a defecting KGB agent reveals a Soviet plot named Operation Glass. Espionage writer Chris Morgan Jones gives his verdict.

Poet Eleanor Rees talks about her latest collection, Blood Child. Filled with mysterious transformations and supernatural elements, including ghosts, mermaids and women turning into birds, the poetry has the tone of folk ballads or fairy tales.

Presenter : Kirsty Lang
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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30 minutes

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Tue 28 Apr 2015 19:15
±«Óãtv Radio 4

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  • Bugsy Malone

    Duration: 09:41

  • The Game

    Duration: 04:21

  • Spot the fake at Dulwich Picture Gallery

    Duration: 03:48

  • Eleanor Rees

    Duration: 06:48

  • Andrew Lesnie

    Duration: 03:36

Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

is at the Lyric Hammersmith in London  until 1 August 2015.

Main image: Sasha Gray as Bugsy Malone. Photo by Manuel Harlan. Left: Cast picture. Photo by David Ellis

The Game

The Game

begins on ±«Óãtv Two on Thursday 30 April at 9pm.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dulwich Picture Gallery

The identity of a replica painting which was hung at as part of a Made in China: A Doug Fishbone Project has been revealed as Jean-Honore Fragonard's 18th Century Young Woman. The replica and the original will now hang side by side at the gallery.

Images: Left: Young Woman by Jean-Honore Fragonard. Right: The replica of the Fragonard painting.  (Dulwich Picture Gallery)


Eleanor Rees

Eleanor Rees

Blood Child by is available now in paperback.

Credits

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Alan Parker
Interviewed Guest Sean Holmes
Interviewed Guest Chris Morgan Jones
Interviewed Guest Eleanor Rees
Producer Dymphna Flynn

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