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Michael Morpurgo鈥檚 book Private Peaceful has been made into a film, a solo stage show and a radio drama. As a new ensemble version opens at Nottingham Playhouse, before touring the country, the author and adapter Simon Reade talks to Nick Ahad about the power of this story of two brothers, caught up in the trauma of the First World War.

We talk to the newly announced winner of the Barbellion Prize, dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing: Lynn Buckle鈥檚 on her novel, What Willow Says, a meditation on nature and deafness.

Soprano Barbara Hannigan first sang the role of Elle, the jilted lover in Poulenc鈥檚 one woman opera La Voix Humaine, in 2015. Now she鈥檚 simultaneously singing and conducting the opera, based on Jean Cocteau鈥檚 original monologue, with the London Symphony Orchestra at The Barbican.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Simon Richardson

Image: Daniel Rainford in Private Peaceful Credit: Manuel Harlan