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FRIDAY 02 APRIL
Presented by John Wilson
ENGLAND EXPECTS
England Expects, written by Frank Deasy, stars Steven Mackintosh as former football hooligan Ray Knight, a security guard at a financial trading company in Canary Wharf, the symbol of corporate wealth that looms high over the impoverished communities below. Journalist Sukhdev Sandhu - author of the book London Calling, about the history of non-white communities in the capital - discusses.
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ARE MUSEUMS TOO POPULAR?
Front Row brought together Michael Clarke, Director of the National Gallery of Scotland, museum consultant Stephen Feber and Sharon Amant Director of Communication and Development at the Natural History Museum to ask - can museums be too popular?
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BORIS AKUNIN
Some time in 1997, the wife of a Russian academic, a philologist called Grigory Chkhartishvili complained that there was nothing in the bookshops worth reading. Her husband's solution was to write to order, by creating a historical detective hero called Erast Fandorin. The second novel in the series, Leviathan, has just been published in English. Grigory Chahar-tis-velly - or Boris Akunin - joins Front Row.
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CITYSCAPE
If the city were a symphony, what would it sound like? That was the challenge faced by composer Jennifer Higdon when she was commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to create a work called City Scape, a musical interpretation of the state capital of Georgia. Front Row spoke to Jennifer Higdon, to composer William Mival, who teaches at the Royal College of Music, and to Helen Wallace, Editor of BBC Music Magazine to explore the question of the urban soundtrack.
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