Front Row - Dua Lipa, Sara Collins, Edinburgh festivals cancelled, Molly O’Cathain

Dua Lipa, Sara Collins, Edinburgh festivals cancelled, Molly O’Cathain

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Dua Lipa shares the inspiration behind her new album Future Nostalgia, what it's been like releasing an album under quarantine.

As the Edinburgh Festivals are cancelled this year, Joyce McMillan of The Scotsman discusses what this means for theatre, comedy and the arts, and for the city itself.

Set and costume designer Molly O’Cathain, on lockdown at home with her parents in Dublin, has combined her love of art and skill as a production designer to recreate famous painting of couples using her parents as models. She tells John how she's been doing it.

Sara Collins won the 2019 Costa First Novel Award for The Confessions of Frannie Langton. In the latest in our J’Accuse series, she takes on what she sees as the segregation of publishing and the expectations on writers of colour to “tackle” the subject of race.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Hannah Robins

Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2020.

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