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Anomalisa, Seamus Heaney's The Aeneid, Handel at Vauxhall, In the Age of Giorgione

Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including a review of Anomalisa, Seamus Heaney's The Aeneid, Handel at Vauxhall's Pleasure Gardens and Venetian painter Giorgione's influence.

Radio 4's Book of the Week is Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of The Aeneid, read by Ian McKellen. Samira Ahmed speaks to Catherine Heaney, the poet's daughter, and his editor, Matthew Hollis, about her father's love of the poem, the place of Latin in his life, and bringing the poet's final work out of the underworld of his study and into the light of day.

Anomalisa, the Academy Award nominated stop-motion animation from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson is a darkly comedic and surreal journey into the mind of a self-help author who is crippled by the mundanity of his life until he meets a sales rep whilst on a business trip. Jenny McCartney reviews

Historian David Coke and conductor and harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham discuss a new recording of Handel's music by London Early Opera, focused on London's famed Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.

The master Venetian painter Giorgione paved the way, in the early 1500s, to the golden age of luminous colour and even the first landscape in the history of art, however since he died young we actually don't know much about him. Curator Per Rumberg shows us round the Royal Academy exhibition which brings together Giorgione's key masterpieces with works by Titian, Giovanni Cariani, and Tullio Lombardo to pay tribute to his revolutionary influence.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jack Soper.

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  • Seamus Heaney

    Duration: 09:04

  • Anomolisa

    Duration: 03:57

  • Handel at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

    Duration: 07:31

  • In the Age of Giorgione

    Duration: 07:08

Anomalisa

Anomalisa
Anomalisa is in cinemas from Friday 11 March, certificate 15.Ìý

Seamus Heaney’s The Aeneid

Seamus Heaney’s The Aeneid
The Aeneid translated by Seamus Heaney can be heard on .Ìý

Handel at Vauxhall

Handel at Vauxhall
Handel at Vauxhall, Vol. 1 is released on Signum Records.
Image from the collection of David Coke.Ìý

In the Age of Giorgione

In the Age of Giorgione
In the Age of Giorgione is showing at the from 12 March to 5 June 2016.Ìý

Photo (c) Jorg P. Anders 

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest Catherine Heaney
Interviewed Guest Matthew Hollis
Interviewed Guest Jenny McCartney
Interviewed Guest David Coke
Interviewed Guest Bridget Cunningham
Interviewed Guest Per Rumberg
Producer Jack Soper

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  • Tue 8 Mar 2016 19:15

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