Mercury Music Prize, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dennis Kelly
Arts news with Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Mercury Prize for album of the year. Plus the long-awaited final book in Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel trilogy.
With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for album of the year, announced today.
Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died in 2011, walked from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the early 1930s. This resulted in two best-selling books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Colin Thubron and biographer Artemis Cooper discuss how they pieced together Leigh Fermor's unfinished manuscript and diaries to produce the final part of the trilogy, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.
And Dennis Kelly, who wrote the book for the hit musical Matilda and created the cult Channel 4 series Utopia, on his debut play for the Royal Court Theatre in London. The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas is about a man who tries to make his fortune by telling lies.
Producer Tim Prosser.
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Duration: 09:59
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Duration: 08:40
Dennis Kelly
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Barclaycard Mercury Prize: 2013 Albums of the Year
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AM by Arctic Monkeys
Overgrown by James Blake
The Next Day by David Bowie
Jake Bugg by Jake Bugg
Settle by Disclosure
Holy Fire by Foals
Immunity by Jon Hopkins
Once I Was an Eagle by Laura Marling
Sing to the Moon by Laura Mvula
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ by Rudimental
Silence Yourself by Savages
{Awayland} by VillagersΜύ
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The winner will be announced on 30th October.
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The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor is available on hardback and e-book now.Μύ
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper will be available in hardback, paperback and e-book from 11th October.
The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas
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by Dennis Kelly is at the Royal Court Theatre in London until 19th October.
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Image: Pippa Haywood as A and Tom Brooke as Gorge. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
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Role Contributor Presenter Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest Artemis Cooper Interviewed Guest Colin Thubron Interviewed Guest Dennis Kelly Producer Timothy Prosser Broadcast
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