The County & Little Fires Everywhere; The Archers; VĂkingur Ălafsson; poetry to console
Little Fires Everywhere and The County reviewed. Plus, The Archers and Coronavirus, poetry to console, and VĂkingur Ălafsson plays Debussy
For Front Rowâs Friday review, the author Patrice Lawrence and film critic Hannah McGill consider two new options to stream. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ngâs bestselling novel set in 1997 suburban America and raising questions around class and race, has been made into a drama on Amazon Prime, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The Icelandic director GrĂmur HĂĄkonarson won acclaim for his film Rams. In his latest film The County, he tells the story of a woman who singlehandedly takes on corruption in her local farmersâ cooperative. The film is available on Curzon ±«Óătv Cinema.
As new episodes of The Archers return to Radio 4, we talk to James Cartwright who plays PC Harrison Burns about ways the worldâs longest running soap is responding to the challenges of Coronavirus on and off air.
President Macron has announced a series of measures to help the culture sector in France recover from the effects of Covid-19. French author and cultural commentator Agnes Poirier explains how they will work and whether any lessons can be learned for sustaining the cultural landscape in Britain.
Emilia Clarke has a new online project in which she asks leading actors to perform poems to help us with the psychological difficulties of the pandemic. The poems are chosen from William Sieghartâs Poetry Pharmacy anthologies which prescribe poems âfor the heart, mind and soulâ, and have been performed so far by Helena Bonham Carter, Idris Elba, Stephen Fry and Andrew Scott. William Sieghart joins us to discuss poetry's pwer to soothe.
And Front Rowâs artist in residence pianist VĂkingur Ălafsson plays La Damoiselle eÌlue by Claude Debussy, live from Reykjavikâs Harper concert hall.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer Edwina Pitman
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