Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts
Pet Shop Boys discuss their Alan Turing 91Èȱ¬ Prom, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera on his new fiction Noontide Toll, ENO's Artistic Director John Berry.
Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss their 91Èȱ¬ late-night Prom which includes the world premiere of A Man From the Future, about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing; Private Eye editor Ian Hislop reviews last night's opening of the Richard Bean play Great Britain starring Billie Piper, which deals with Leveson and the phone-hacking affair; English National Opera's Artistic Director John Berry on today's announcement of Arts Council cuts in funding; and Romesh Gunesekera on Noontide Toll, his new collection of related stories which deal with the effects of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe on their world premiere at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms.
Duration: 08:45
Great Britain
Ian Hislop reviews the play, Great Britain, a satire on the phone hacking scandal.
Duration: 07:35
Arts Council Funding Cuts: ENO
Artistic Director John Berry on the ENO's 30 percent subsidy cut.
Duration: 04:23
Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh on Noon Tide Tolls, a short story collection all set in Sri Lanka.
Duration: 07:08
Pet Shop Boys - Turing Prom
The late night Prom – – is on Wednesday 23rd July at 10.15pm and will be broadcast live on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 and online.
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Richard Bean's Great Britain
ÌýisÌýat the National Theatre in London until 23rd August,Ìýwhen it movesÌýto the Theatre Royal Haymarket from Sept to Jan 2015.
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Image: Billie Piper as Paige Britain.
Credit: Johan Perrson
Romesh Gunesekera
's latest collection of storiesÌýÌýis out now as a paperback and ebook.
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Photo credit: Yemisi Blake
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Neil Tennant Interviewed Guest Chris Lowe Interviewed Guest Ian Hislop Interviewed Guest John Berry Interviewed Guest Romesh Gunesekera Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
- Tue 1 Jul 2014 19:1591Èȱ¬ Radio 4
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