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The Great Fire; Rachel Joyce; Richard Tuttle Review; Ayub Khan Din

With Samira Ahmed. Including a review of TV drama The Great Fire, Rachel Joyce on her new novel, writer and actor Ayub Khan Din, and two Richard Tuttle exhibitions are reviewed.

With Samira Ahmed. Historian Justin Champion reviews a major new TV drama series set during the time of the Great Fire of London, when the country was at war and there were also fears of Catholic plots against King Charles II.

Rachel Joyce's first novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was the bestselling debut of 2012. She describes her new book The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy as a companion to that novel, and tells Samira why she returned to their story.

American artist Richard Tuttle has been commissioned to install a new work in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and also has a retrospective of his work opening at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Richard Tuttle talks about his hopes for his new Turbine Hall commission and Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews both exhibitions.

Leonora Gummer from the Artists' Collection Society explains how artists can make sure they get paid as their works are sold on from collector to collector.

Eighteen years since East Is East hit the London stage, playwright and actor Ayub Khan Din stars alongside Jane Horrocks in a fresh revival of his modern, multiracial drama. Samira talks to Ayub Khan Din about his own British-Pakistani upbringing in the north of England and the politics of race and identity in flux.

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30 minutes

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 19:15

Chapters

  • The Great Fire

    Historian Justin Champion reviews ITV鈥檚 new drama The Great Fire.

    Duration: 04:08

  • Rachel Joyce

    Rachel Joyce talks about her new book The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

    Duration: 07:54

  • Richard Tuttle

    Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews his work at the Turbine Hall and Whitechapel Gallery

    Duration: 05:31

  • Artist鈥檚 Resale Right

    Leonora Gummer on how artists can make sure they get paid as their works are sold on.

    Duration: 03:29

  • East Is East

    Playwright and actor Ayub Khan Din on his revival of East Is East.

    Duration: 06:53

Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle: I Don鈥檛 Know. The Weave of Textile Language is showing at and in London until Monday 6 April 2015.

Main image: Richard Tuttle - I Don't Know. The Weave of Textile Language at Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. Photocredit: 漏 Andrew Dunkley, Tate Photography.聽


Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce

by Rachel Joyce is available in hardback and e-book now.

Image: 漏 Gaby Gerster Laif Camerapress

The Great Fire

begins on ITV on Thursday 16 October at 9pm


East Is East

East Is East

is at the Trafalgar Studios in London until Saturday 3 January 2015

Image: George Khan (Ayub Khan Din), Ella Khan (Jane Horrocks) and Doctor (Karl Seth). Photo credit Marc Brenner


Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest Justin Champion
Interviewed Guest Rachel Joyce
Interviewed Guest Ayub Khan-Din
Interviewed Guest Richard Tuttle
Interviewed Guest Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Producer Dymphna Flynn

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  • Mon 13 Oct 2014 19:15

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