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Queer Icons

Alan Carr presents highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, with guests including Antony Sher, Mary Portas, Olly Alexander, Christine and the Queens and Will Young.

Highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, presented by Alan Carr.

With guests including Mary Portas, Olly Alexander, Christine and the Queens, Paris Lees, Maggi Hambling, Rebecca Root, A.Dot, Stella Duffy and the Oscar-winning writer of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Celebrating LGBTQ culture from the poetry of Sappho to the songs of Frank Ocean, we've asked guests to champion a piece of LGBTQ artwork that is special to them - one that has significance in their lives.

Will Young picks the Joan Armatrading song that inspired him to come out; Christine and the Queens talks about Jean Genet's Our Lady Of The Flowers; and Sir Antony Sher reveals his regrets about not being out publicly when he starred in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy.

For the full interviews head to Front Row's Queer Icons website - just click on the links below - where you can hear Queer Icons from Neil MacGregor, Asifa Lahore, Colm Toibin, Tony Kushner, Emma Donoghue, Nicholas Hytner and many more.

Presenter: Alan Carr
Readers: Lorelei King and Simon Russell Beale
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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30 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Aug 2017 15:30

Broadcasts

  • Tue 8 Aug 2017 11:30
  • Sat 12 Aug 2017 15:30