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Michael Pennington, The Last of the Unjust, Minimalist Music

Michael Pennington discusses his new book about how to become an actor, composers Stephen Montague and Scanner on minimalist music, and Anne Karpf reviews The Last of the Unjust.

Michael Pennington, best known as a stage actor and co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company, discusses his new book Let Me Play the Lion Too: How to be an Actor.

As part of the research for his 1985 landmark documentary about the Holocaust, Shoah, director Claude Lanzmann interviewed Benjamin Murmelstein, the president of the Jewish Council who ran the "model ghetto" of Theresienstadt under the Nazis. Lanzmann has turned the previously unseen footage into The Last of the Unjust, a new documentary about Murmelstein and the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Anne Karpf reviews.

Minimalism was a musical movement born in the Sixties which was an ear-catching, pulsing reaction to the atonality of previous decades, associated with Philip Glass and Britain's Michael Nyman. The composers Stephen Montague and Scanner are taking part in a series of events: Minimalism Unwrapped. They explain the movement's key features.

In the fourth of Front Row's reflections on January, the Royal Academy's Director of Artistic Programmes Tim Marlow discusses a painting that encapsulates this dark time of year.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Michael Pennington

    Duration: 08:21

  • The Last of the Unjust

    Duration: 05:56

  • Minimalism in Music

    Duration: 09:17

  • Tim Marlow's January

    Duration: 03:57

Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

is published on 15th January 2015

Photo credit: Simon Annand


Minimalism in Music

Minimalism in Music

takes place at Kings Hall from JanÌý7 until Dec 20 2015

is onÌýSaturday, 10 January 2015

takes place on Jan 10, 2015 at 10.30amÌý

is on Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 16:00 -

Photo credit: Moira Gil

The Last of the Unjust

The Last of the Unjust

is in select cinemas from 9th January 2015



January in Turner's Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

January in Turner's Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

The Royal Academy's Tim Marlow discusses the essence of January in JMW Turner's paintingÌýSnow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth.

The painting is part of from 10 September 2014Ìý–Ìý25 January 2015

Image:Ìý
JMW TurnerÌý
Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth exhibited 1842
Oil paint on canvas
support: 914 x 1219 mm frame: 1233 x 1535 x 145 mm
painting
Tate. Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856



Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest Michael Pennington
Interviewed Guest Stephen Montague
Interviewed Guest Scanner
Interviewed Guest Anne Karpf
Interviewed Guest Tim Marlow
Producer Olivia Skinner

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  • Thu 8 Jan 2015 19:15

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