Front Row - Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed

Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed

Download Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed

Richard Eyre on directing the screen version of Alan Bennett’s play Allelujah, starring Jennifer Saunders, set on the geriatric ward of a fictional Yorkshire hospital, the Bethlehem, and on raising questions about how society cares for its older population.

We review the star-studded Apple TV+ climate change series Extrapolations, and a new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers - Black Artists from the American South. Our reviewers are writer and comic artist Woodrow Phoenix - and YA author, script editor and founder of the international Climate Fiction Writers League, Lauren James.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Sarah Johnson

Published on Thursday, 16th March 2023.

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