Front Row - Joe Wright on Cyrano, Costa poetry winner Hannah Lowe, A Hero
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In his latest film Cyrano, director Joe Wright has tackled the 1897 French verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac. He joins Tom Sutcliffe to discuss turning a classic into a musical and dispensing with Cyrano’s prominent nose.
The winner of the Costa Poetry Award Hannah Lowe talks about her collection The Kids, an autobiographical series of sonnets which paint a picture of the decade she spent teaching in an inner city London school. She tells us why an age-old form mastered by Shakespeare is perfectly suited to tackling the politics of race and class in contemporary Britain.
And critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Kohinoor Sahota discuss the palme d'or winning Iranian film A Hero.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Laura Northedge
Production Co-ordinator: Lizzie Harris
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2022.
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