Khadija Saye remembered, Jon Ronson, Harry Potter 20 years on
Author and screenwriter Jon Ronson discusses his career and latest film Okja, Harry Potter 20 years on, and the artist and photographer Khadija Saye remembered. With John Wilson.
Okja, a new Netflix feature film about a young girl in the South Korean mountains raising a giant pig, stars Tilda Swinton and the young Korean actor An Seo Hyun. The film was co-written by the British author and journalist Jon Ronson, who discusses the film and his career.
It's 20 years on Monday since JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book was published and a whole generation of millennial Muggles have grown up with him in books, films and on stage. To mark the anniversary Front Row asks Tim Burke, the visual effects supervisor on most of the Harry Potter films; Viv Groskop, comedian, writer and parent; Rhianna Dhillon, film critic and self-confessed Potter nerd; Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust; and the pupils of Oasis Academy in Salford what Harry means to them, and whether a world in which he'd never been created is even imaginable.
Among the many victims of the Grenfell Tower fire was the 24-year-old artist and photographer Khadija Saye. Her images attracted international attention recently when they were featured in the new Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which opened last month and showcases work by established and emerging artists. The Pavilion's curator David A Bailey and Khadija's mentor, the artist Nicola Green, remember their friend and discuss the nature of her work.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Rachel Simpson.
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Jon Ronson
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Harry Potter 20 years on
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Khadija Saye remembered
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Image: An Seo Hyun as Mija with Okja the giant pig in the film Okja, which was co-written by
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Harry Potter 20 years on
Image: Harry Potter playing Quidditch in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Image credit: Illustration by Jim Kay Β© Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015
Khadija Saye remembered
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Image to the left: Nak Bejjen x Cow Horn x Khadija Saye by Khadija Saye
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Jon Ronson Interviewed Guest Tim Burke Interviewed Guest Viv Groskop Interviewed Guest Rhianna Dhillon Interviewed Guest Jonathan Douglas Interviewed Guest David A Bailey Interviewed Guest Nicola Green Producer Rachel Simpson Broadcast
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