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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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
Arrival is on general release from 10 November
Main picture shows Amy Adams in ArrivalΒJohn Rutter
John Rutter's cdΒ Visions and Requiem is available nowTracy Chevalier - Classic I've Never Read
Tracy Chevalier's Classic I've Never Read is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAchates Philanthropy Prize
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Role Contributor Interviewed Guest Amy Adams Interviewed Guest John Rutter Interviewed Guest Tracy Chevalier Interviewed Guest Caroline McCormick Presenter John Wilson Producer Rachel Simpson Broadcast
- Tue 1 Nov 2016 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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