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Peaceophobia, Help Review, Georgina Harding, Kurt Elling

Co-director of Peaceophobia, Eve Manning. Sam Delaney reviews Help. Georgina Harding on her Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Short Story award nominated story, Night Train. Kurt Elling.

If you go down to the Oastler Centre carpark in Bradford over the next few days, you’re sure of a big surprise because this derelict multi-storey is the venue for a new theatrical production - Peaceophobia - exploring the passions and the lives of three young Pakistani-heritage Muslim men from Bradford as they attend a car meet. Evie Manning is co-director of the show and joins Front Row to explain how Peaceophobia came about.

Sam Delaney reviews Jack Thorne's new Channel 4 drama, Help, which is set in Liverpool care home during the pandemic.

Georgina Harding is known as an acclaimed novelist for works including Painter of Silence which was shortlisted for what was then the Orange Prize (now Women’s Prize) for Fiction in 2012. She has just been shortlisted for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Short Story Award for Night Train. It’s the account of a woman’s train journey across Ukraine, striking up conversation with a fellow passenger. It will be broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 on Wednesday at 15:30. She talks to Front Row about the story.

In a career spanning thirty years Kurt Ellling has been nominated no less than ten times for a Grammy and won the Jazz Vocal Album award twice. His latest album Superblue was recorded under lockdown conditions with all the musicians playing in separate studios. Kurt explains how they managed to maintain the spontaneity under such conditions and how that will translate to playing live on his British dates.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Harry Parker

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Peaceophobia

Peaceophobia
Peaceophobia is on until 2nd October - Μύ

Image left (c) Karol Wzszyski

Help

Help
Help is on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 9pm

Kurt Elling

Kurt Elling
new album Superblue is out on 30th September and he’s playing at in London 18th - 21st September


Main image above (c) Anna Webber
Image left (c) Cory DewaldΜύ

National Short Story Award Shortlist 2021 - Georgina Harding

Night train will be broadcast at 3.30pm on Radio 4 on Wednesday 22nd September and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Short Story Award winner will be announced in a ceremony on Front Row on 19th October.

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