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Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024

Vicky McClure on her new tv thriller Insomnia, novelist Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hoffman on winning the International Booker Prize, Lowry and the sea discussed

Line of Duty star Vicky McClure on her new TV thriller Insomnia, in which she plays a lawyer losing her grip on the daily juggle of family life and work as old traumas start to make their presence felt.

The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofman on winning the International Booker Prize with the novel Kairos which marries a love story with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

As a new exhibition - Lowry and the Sea – opens this weekend at the Maltings’ Granary Gallery in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, art historian and Lowry specialist Jonathan Horwich, and contemporary seascape painter Jo Bemis discuss this little-known side of L. S. Lowry's work and the challenge of capturing the everchanging sea on canvas.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

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  • Wed 22 May 2024 19:15

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