Front Row - Sharlene Teo, Alice Oswald, William Tillyer, The Chelsea Hotel, Coronation Street's women
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Sharlene Teo on her debut novel Ponti, an account of teenage friendship and fraught mother/daughter relationships set in a sweltering Singapore, that's been called remarkable by Ian McEwan.
Is Coronation Street the most feminist soap on television? Emma Bullimore makes the case.
Radio 4 poet-in-residence Alice Oswald and artist William Tillyer discuss their collaboration Nobody. Both a book and an exhibition, it fuses the written word with watercolour. They talk about the nature of collaboration, taking inspiration from the Odyssey and learning from each other's work.
And as 53 doors that used to lead to rooms occupied by legends such as Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin and Jack Kerouac at New York's Chelsea Hotel are auctioned off, writer Michael Carlson examines the cultural significance of the long-term residence for generations of singers, writers and bohemians.
Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Sarah Johnson.
Published on Friday, 13th April 2018.
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