Front Row - Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry

Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry

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Adam Driver stars in Michael Mann’s film Ferrari, set in the summer of 1957 as the ex-racer turned entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari pushes his drivers to the limit on a thousand mile race across Italy while his business and marriage are failing.

A poet would never publish a first draft. Well, not until Rosanna McGlone interviewed 15 of our finest poets – Don Paterson, Gillian Clarke and Pascale Petit among them. They revealed their first drafts alongside their finished poems in her book The Process of Poetry. Tom Sutcliffe talks to her and to Don Paterson about writing poetry.

As radio drama turns 100 this year, Bill Nighy is stars in A Single Act, a new radio drama going out on Boxing Day written by long term collaborator AL Kennedy. They both talk to Tom Sutcliffe about their mutual love of the form – and whether the pictures really are better on radio.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Paul Waters

Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2023.

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