Gypsy, Martin Parr, Hermitage Director, Tennessee Williams Drama Found
Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton reviewed, Martin Parr's Chinese Photobooks, the director of the Hermitage Museum, and newly discovered Tennessee Williams drama fragments.
Sondheim and Styne's stage production of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton, is reviewed by Sarah Crompton.
Photographer Martin Parr discusses his collection of Chinese Photobooks at The Photographers' Gallery in London, which chart the culture, history, politics and propaganda of China in photographs from 1900 to the present.
Gerri Kimber was undertaking research in archives at the University of Texas when she came across a new fragment of a play by Tennessee Williams. It features the real-life couples DH and Frieda Lawrence, and Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry, caught during the First World War as a Zeppelin threatens overhead. She tells John more about her find.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, discusses Russian-British cultural and political relations and how he was behind the recent loan of one of the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Images from The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition
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Gypsy
Duration: 04:53
Hermitage Director
Duration: 09:45
Tennessee Williams
Duration: 06:55
Martin Parr
Duration: 06:19
Gypsy
Ìýis at the Savoy Theatre in London, currently booking until JulyÌý2015.
Photos above and left by Johan Persson.
Hermitage Museum
Mikhail Piotrovsky is director of the , which is situated in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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The Chinese Photobook
, which is curated by Martin Parr and artist collective WassinkLundgren, is at The Photographers’ Gallery in London until 5 July 2015.
Image:ÌýCover and interior selection from Peking the BeautifulÌýby Herbert C. WhiteÌý(Shanghai: Commercial Press, Limited, 1927).
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Sarah Crompton Interviewed Guest Martin Parr Interviewed Guest Gerri Kimber Interviewed Guest Mikhail Piotrovsky Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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