Mary Portas' Queer Icon, Michael Symmons Roberts, Howard's End, Susie Dent
Mary Portas on 'I Feel Love', her Queer Icon, plus Susie Dent on how the arts have entered the English language, poet Michael Symmons Roberts, and Howard's End re-released.
For our Queer Icons series, Mary Portas champions Donna Summer's classic disco track, I Feel Love.
The lexicographer Susie Dent pulls the stops out to tell John about words and phrases in the English language that have their origins in music, painting, the theatre or literature.
The poet Michael Symmons Roberts describes his creation of a city that's rooted in Manchester, but isn't quite the real thing, for a new collection of poetry, Mancunia.
And as the film Howard's End, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, celebrates its 25th anniversary, a new technically improved version of it is being released in cinemas. To get an unusual insight into the film-making process, Front Row brought together the film's cinematographer, Tony Pierce-Roberts, and colourist, Steve Bearman to discuss how they upgraded the visual quality for the digital age.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Sarah Johnson.
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Mary Portas on Donna Summer's I Feel Love
Duration: 02:42
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Mary Porta
Duration: 06:16
Susie Dent
Duration: 07:32
Michael Symmons Roberts
Duration: 06:09
Howard's End
Duration: 07:56
Michael Symmons Roberts
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Michael Symmons Roberts
Photo credit: Urszula Soltys
Michael Symmons Roberts' seventh poetry collection, Mancunia, is published on 3 AugHoward's End
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Samuel West in Howard's End
Photo credit: Merchant Ivory
Howard's End is on at , cert PG
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Mary Portas Interviewed Guest Susie Dent Interviewed Guest Michael Symmons Roberts Interviewed Guest Tony Pierce-Roberts Interviewed Guest Steve Bearman Producer Sarah Johnson Broadcast
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