Billy Bragg, Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s
Paul Murray talks about his Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Bee Sting and folk musician Billy Bragg performs live in the Front Row studio.
Singer, songwriter and activist Billy Bragg joins Samira Ahmed to perform live in the Front Row studio and discuss The Roaring Forty, a box set and nationwide tour to mark his forty years in the music industry.
Women in Revolt, a new exhibition of Feminist art of the 70s and 80s, opens this week at the Tate Britain in London. Musician and punk artist Helen McCookerybook and art historian Catherine McCormack discuss the impact of the era.
In the latest in Front Row’s series of interviews with the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Paul Murray discusses The Bee Sting. A family saga set in contemporary Ireland, it examines our capacity for denial in the face of disaster.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
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