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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Painter George Shaw
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The Heart of Robin Hood
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The Heart of Robin Hood
Andrew Dickson reviews The Heart of Robin Hood - the RSC's Christmas show
Duration: 05:54
National Gallery Portraits
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National Gallery Portraits
Tracy Chevalier and Joanna Trollope on mystery portraits
Duration: 08:19
Scrapheap Orchestra
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Scrapheap Orchestra
The Scrapheap Orchestra plays the 1812 Overture with instruments made of scrap
Duration: 07:54
George Shaw
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George Shaw
John Wilson talks to Turner Prize nominee George Shaw
Duration: 06:22
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- Fri 2 Dec 2011 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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