The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet
The radio dramatisation of Eliot's The Waste Land and mockumentary Brian and Charles reviewed, The Story Museum Oxford, Shakespeare's Hamlet as played in Grand Theft Auto.
This week’s cultural critics, music journalist Jude Rogers and film critic Rhianna Dhillon, join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new Radio 3 drama, He Do The Waste Land in Different Voices, marking the centenary of poet T.S. Eliot’s Modernist masterpiece The Waste Land. They also discuss the film Brian and Charles, a mockumentary directed by Jim Archer, which follows a reclusive man who builds and befriends a robot in rural Wales.
The Story Museum in Oxford is the latest of those to be shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year, all of which we are featuring on Front Row before the announcement of the winner next week. Tom visits the museum and takes a tour through storytelling trees, down a rabbit hole and through the back of a wardrobe.
And actor Sam Crane joins us to talk about an extraordinary live performance of Hamlet in the video game Grand Theft Auto.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Sarah Johnson
Photo: John Cairns
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