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Jeremy O. Harris's play Daddy, Walt Disney exhibition & Navalny documentary reviewed; musician Kizzy Crawford

Jeremy O.Harris's play Daddy at The Almeida, Walt Disney exhibition at the Wallace Collection & Navalny documentary reviewed; Kizzy Crawford on the poetry of Robert Williams Parry

American playwright Jeremy O.Harris discusses his play Daddy, at London’s Almeida Theatre, which explores the romantic relationship between Franklin, a young black artist, and Andre, a wealthy white collector.

Front Row reviews works that are poles apart today; the exhibition Inspiring Walt Disney, which reveals how Disney’s fascination with France, especially Rococo design, animates films such as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, and the film Navalny, about the Russian opposition leader who was poisoned with Novichok, recovered in Berlin and returned – to be immediately incarcerated. It is as much a crime thriller, a whodunnit, as a documentary. Film critic Leila Latif and John Kampfner, who began his career as a Reuters Moscow correspondent, but is also Chair of the House of Illustration, discuss these with Tom Sutcliffe.

To mark the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Art That Made Us season, Front Row invites artists from across the nations of the UK to choose the piece of art that made them by shaping their artistic and cultural identity. Today we hear from the Welsh-Bajan musician Kizzy Crawford on Robert Williams Parry's poem The Fox.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Harry Parker

Photo: Terique Jarrett and Sharlene Whyte in Daddy at the Almeida Credit: Marc Brenner

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  • Thu 7 Apr 2022 19:15

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