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Tom Rob Smith, Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors, Kevin Barry

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Tom Rob Smith on his TV thriller London Spy and a look at the Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors exhibition.

Tom Rob Smith, the first crime writer to make it on to the Booker longlist with Child 44, discusses London Spy, his new TV thriller in which a young romantic, played by Ben Whishaw, is drawn through love into the dangerous world of espionage.

Irish writer Kevin Barry talks about his new novel Beatlebone, in which a crisis-ridden John Lennon tries to get to the island he owned in real life in Clew Bay, Co Mayo, in 1978.

Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 is the first major exhibition of work by women artists to be mounted by the National Galleries of Scotland. Art critic Jan Patience reviews.

As part of the 91热爆 On Stage season, Front Row goes backstage and eavesdrops on what's going on shortly before a show begins. Tonight Neve McIntosh, who plays Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible at the Bristol Old Vic, shares the ritual of her preparation in the last half-hour before curtain-up.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Tom Rob Smith

    Duration: 08:59

  • Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors

    Duration: 04:54

  • Kevin Barry

    Duration: 08:51

  • Backstage with Neve McIntosh

    Duration: 04:40

London Spy

London Spy

, written by Tom Rob Smith, begins on 91热爆 Two on Monday 9 November at 9pm聽

Modern Scottish Women

Modern Scottish Women

is at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh until 26 June 2016.

Images: Left: 聽Dorothy Johnstone - Anne Finlay, 1920. Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections: Purchased with the assistance of the National Fund for Acquisitions 1983.

Right - 聽Norah Neilson Gray, Mother and Child, 1920s. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh: Purchased with funds from the Cecil and Mary Gibson Bequest 2015聽

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry

Beatlebone by is available in hardback and ebook now.

Photo 漏 Conor O'Mahony聽

On Stage

On Stage

As part of the season, Front Row goes backstage and eavesdrops on what's going on shortly before a show begins. Tonight Neve McIntosh, who plays Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible at the Bristol Old Vic.

is at the Bristol Old Vic until 7 November 2015.

Image: Neve McIntosh and Dean Lennox Kelly. Photo by Geraint Lewis


Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Tom Rob Smith
Interviewed Guest Kevin Barry
Interviewed Guest Jan Patience
Interviewed Guest Neve McIntosh
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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  • Thu 5 Nov 2015 19:15

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