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Last broadcast on Wed, 2 Mar 2011, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
With Mark Lawson.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have created new songs for the musical production of The Wizard of Oz which features performances from Michael Crawford as the Wizard, Hannah Waddingham as the Wicked Witch of the West and Danielle Hope, making her stage debut as Dorothy, after winning the BBC TV series Over the Rainbow. Matt Wolf - London Theatre Critic of the International Herald Tribune reviews.
Striggio's long lost Mass in 40 Parts has recently been rediscovered. Robert Hollingworth talks about its history as a Medici family commission and his surround sound recording of it with I Fagiolini.
Herman Melville's Moby Dick has inspired many retellings including the new film Age of the Dragons and an exhibition in Croydon. Philip Hoare - who won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction for his book Leviathan - discusses these and other examples including the novel Ahab's Wife and films such as Jaws.
As part of Radio 4's World Book Night coverage we talk to Edith Grossman, translator of works by Nobel Prize winning Colombian novelist and screenwriter Gabriel García Márquez. Love in the Time of Cholera, his tale of unrequited love that seeks to find new life 51 years later, is one of 25 titles chosen to be given away across the UK and Ireland as part of the first World Book Night which takes place on Saturday 5 March.
The books range from Fingersmith by Sarah Waters to Northern Lights by Philip Pullman to Beloved by Toni Morrison and on the Radio 4 website you can find a collection of interviews about the books which includes past Front Row interviews with John le Carré and the late Muriel Spark.
Producer Robyn Read.
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is at the London Palladium.
Robert Hollingworth
Alessandrio Striggio's Mass in 40 Parts is released on the Decca Classics Label.
The CD/DVD also includes Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis recorded with instruments.
I Fagiolini's 25th anniversary tour begins with a performance at Poole on March 5th. They then travel to Milton Keynes, Oakham, Sheffield, Scarborough, Yokr, Bradford on Avon, Portsmouth and Bristol.
Photo credit Matt Brodie Photography.
Moby Dick
Call Me Ishmael, an exhbition on the theme of Moby Dick is on at the Parfitt Gallery at the Croydon Higher Education College until April 8th.
Age of Dragons Certificate 12 is screening in key cities across the country from Friday March 4th.
A screening of Philip Hoare's Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick is on at the Royal College of Art in London on Thursday March 10th. His book Leviathan is out in paperback.
A link to the Moby Dick Big Read can be found on Philip Hoare's blog.
Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman's translation of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published by Vintage.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have created new songs for the musical production of The Wizard of Oz. Matt Wolf - London Theatre Critic of the International Herald Tribune reviews.
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Chapter 2
Striggio's long lost Mass in 40 Parts has recently been rediscovered. Robert Hollingworth talks about its history as a Medici family commission and his surround sound recording of it with I Fagiolini.
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
An interview with Edith Grossman, translator of works by Nobel Prize winning Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, as part of Radio 4's World Book Night coverage.
Broadcast
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Wed 2 Mar 201119:15
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