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The Chair reviewed, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Timespan shortlisted for Museum of the Year, Punchdrunk

Hanna Flint reviews The Chair starring Sandra Oh, live interview with the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Timespan shortlisted for Museum of the Year, plans for Punchdrunk.

The recent Netflix comedy drama, The Chair, centres on an English professor, played by Sandra Oh who has just been appointed the first female chair of the department and has big dreams about modernising it. Hanna Flint joins us to review

We hear live from the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021, announced this evening: Susanna Clarke for her novel Piranesi. This year’s chair of judges is Bernardine Evaristo

Immersive theatre group Punchdrunk are well known for their imaginative use of unusual locations. They have just announced that they will be establishing a permanent location for future productions – could this mean they’re going mainstream and spell the end of their unorthodox experimentation? We speak with Felix Barratt, Artistic Director and Maxine Doyle, choreographer

It’s time for Front Row’s fifth and final preview of the Art Fund Museum Of The Year nominees. The winner will receive £100,000 and the museums have been spread around the UK. Today’s venue is Timespan in the north eastern Scottish Highlands in Helmsdale, a village of just 800 people. We talk to Sadie Young, the only fulltime member of staff.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Sarah Johnson

Main image above: Sandra Oh in Netflix's The Chair series
Image credit: Eliza Morse/Netflix 2021

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The Chair

The Chair
The Chair is available to stream online from Netflix.     Images: Main image above: Sandra Oh as Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim in The Chair.  Image to the left: The Chair cast.  Images credits: Eliza Morse/Netflix © 2021.

Punchdrunk

Punchdrunk
new HQ is at the , London, a creative district in the restored site of the Royal Arsenal.      Booking has started for Punchdrunk's production   which runs  from March - August 2022.  
Image to the left, from the left: Punchdrunk's Associate Director and Choreographer Maxine Doyle, and Artistic Director Felix Barrett at the new base in Woolwich Works.    Image credit: Julian Abrams.

Timespan Helmsdale

Timespan Helmsdale
in Sutherland is one of the five shortlisted for the Art Fund's .  The winner is announced on 21 September 2021.     Image: Timespan Helmsdale.     Image credit: Marc Atkins/Art Fund

Women's Prize for Fiction Winner 2021

Women's Prize for Fiction Winner 2021
Susanna Clarke's book has won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. It is out now in paperback, hard back and Ebook formats.
Image: Susanna Clarke.  Image credit: Sarah Lee.

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