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Amy Adams, John Rutter and Tracy Chevalier

American actress Amy Adams on communicating with aliens in new sci-fi film Arrival, composer and conductor John Rutter, and Tracy Chevalier on finally reading The Secret Garden.

American actress Amy Adams has been nominated for five Oscars and is tipped to receive a sixth for her performance in sci-film Arrival, in which she plays a linguist trying to contact extra-terrestrials. She discusses her latest role and her career which has seen her play a con artist in American Hustle, a Disney princess in Enchanted and an art gallery owner with a sinister ex in Tom Ford's film Nocturnal Animals.

As part of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Love to Read season, which celebrates the joy of books, author Tracy Chevalier, best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring, confesses to a classic book she's never read and reads it especially for Front Row. Her choice is Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden.

The Achates Philanthropy Prize is a new annual award which aims to show that anyone can become a cultural philanthropist. The prize's founder Caroline McCormick talks about how philanthropic gifts to arts organisations - from the smallest to the largest - could be encouraged in the UK.

Composer and conductor John Rutter talks about his latest work Visions, which is a violin concerto unusually combined with a choir, and why he's made a new recording of his Requiem, which was memorably performed at a service for the 9/11 firefighters in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Amy Adams

    Duration: 08:38

  • Tracy Chevalier

    Duration: 05:20

  • Caroline McCormick

    Duration: 04:21

  • John Rutter

    Duration: 09:10

Amy Adams in Arrival

Amy Adams in Arrival
Amy Adams in Arrival
Arrival is on general release from 10 November

Main picture shows Amy Adams in ArrivalΒ 

John Rutter

John Rutter
John Rutter's cdΒ Visions and Requiem is available now

Tracy Chevalier - Classic I've Never Read

Tracy Chevalier - Classic I've Never Read
Tracy Chevalier's Classic I've Never Read is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Achates Philanthropy Prize

Find out more about the Philanthropy Prize

Credits

Role Contributor
Interviewed Guest Amy Adams
Interviewed Guest John Rutter
Interviewed Guest Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest Caroline McCormick
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Rachel Simpson

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  • Tue 1 Nov 2016 19:15

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