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Robin Hood at the RSC, Tracy Chevalier and Joanna Trollope

RSC's family show The Heart of Robin Hood; Scrapheap Challenge; Tracy Chevalier and Joanna Trollope on mystery portraits; and Turner Prize-nominated artist George Shaw.

The Heart of Robin Hood is the new family show at the RSC. But it's the Robin Hood story with a twist. The production is directed by Gisli Γ–rn Gardarsson, who has a reputation for challenging staging. Andrew Dickson reviews.

Novelists Joanna Trollope and Tracy Chevalier discuss how a selection of Tudor portraits of unknown people at the National Portrait Gallery in London inspired them to invent fictional biographies for the mystery portrait sitters.

Professional double-bass player Andy Wood and percussion instrument maker Paul Jefferies discuss making music out of scrap, and perform with instruments including a boiler double bass and tea urn snare drum. The challenge, to be shown in a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ4 documentary, was to build a Scrapheap Orchestra in 11 weeks and perform Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at the 2011 Proms.

And John Wilson concludes his reports on the Turner-Prize-shortlisted artists when he meets painter George Shaw, whose landscapes feature the area of Coventry where he grew up.

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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30 minutes

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Fri 2 Dec 2011 19:15

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Chapters

  • The Heart of Robin Hood

    • The Heart of Robin Hood

      Andrew Dickson reviews The Heart of Robin Hood - the RSC's Christmas show

      Duration: 05:54

  • National Gallery Portraits

    • National Gallery Portraits

      Tracy Chevalier and Joanna Trollope on mystery portraits

      Duration: 08:19

  • Scrapheap Orchestra

    • Scrapheap Orchestra

      The Scrapheap Orchestra plays the 1812 Overture with instruments made of scrap

      Duration: 07:54

  • George Shaw

    • George Shaw

      John Wilson talks to Turner Prize nominee George Shaw

      Duration: 06:22

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  • Fri 2 Dec 2011 19:15

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