Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot, Arthur Miller play premier, Top picks for non-fiction books of 2015
Arts news with John Wilson, including literary critic Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot's annotated poems and a review of the Arthur Miller play No Villain.
John Wilson talks to the great literary critic Christopher Ricks about the monumental annotated poems of T. S. Eliot that he has co-edited. It runs to 2,000 pages, but only one in eight is verse, the others notes, commentary and context.
Arthur Miller's plays are performed on major stages throughout the world. But his very first drama No Villain is getting its world premier this week in a tiny theatre, above a London pub. Front Row reveals how this came about and Christopher Bigsby, Miller's biographer, reviews the production. No Villain runs at the Old Red Lion Theatre until 9 January.
Journalist and author Max Hastings and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes give a helping hand with this year's Christmas present shopping by picking their favourite non-fiction books of 2015.
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Christopher Ricks on T. S. Eliot
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Cultural Christmas Presents: Non-fiction Books
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Happy Birthday To You - Front Row Style
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Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot
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Non-fiction books
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Arthur Miller play premiere
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Happy Birthday
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TS Eliot
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The Poems of TS Eliot: The Annotated Texts, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, is available in hardback and eBook now.
No Villain
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by Arthur Miller is at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London until 9 January 2016
Image: Nesba Crenshaw & David Bromley in No Villain, courtesy of Cameron Harle.Ìý
Non-fiction books for Christmas
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Max Hastings recommended reads:
The Railways: Nation, Network and People by Simon Bradley
John le Carre biography by Alan Sisman
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Natalie Haynes recommended reads:
Keeping an Eye Open by Julian Barnes
Introducing the Ancient Greeks by Edith Hall
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Christopher Ricks Interviewed Guest Christopher Bigsby Interviewed Guest Max Hastings Interviewed Guest Natalie Haynes Producer Elaine Lester Broadcast
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