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James Norton, Independent Magazines, New Jungle Book Musical

James Norton on his role in TV thriller McMafia and two editors discuss the thriving independent magazine scene. Joe Stilgoe, composer of the new Jungle Book musical, performs.

The actor and one-time theology student James Norton discusses his role as Alex Godman in new TV thriller McMafia. His character begins the series as a public advocate of clean capitalism with his own hedge fund investing only in ethical business, but Alex can't escape his Russian family connections and slowly gets drawn into the dangerous world of international organised crime and corruption.

Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman, and Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, deputy editor of gal-dem magazine, discuss the agendas of their respective publications and the independent magazine landscape, which is vibrant and culturally significant.

You love opera and would love to nurture such love in a loved one: music critics Norman Lebrecht and Alexandra Coghlan are at hand to help, offering their choices of a recording of an opera to entice the reluctant and a cracker available on a DVD.

The Royal and Derngate Theatre in Northampton is staging The Jungle Book. It's impossible, but try to put 'I'm the King of the Swingers' out of your mind. This is a new musical with songs and a score by Joe Stilgoe (yes, son of...), which looks beyond Walt Disney to Rudyard Kipling and his stories about Mowgli, the boy brought up by wolves, and finds in them themes for our times: the complexities of cultural identity in a diverse world, what the Law of the Jungle means and where the Jungle might be. And Joe performs the song he has written for Baloo the Bear, live in the Front Row studio.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • James Norton

    Duration: 07:37

  • Independent Magazines

    Duration: 09:43

  • Opera Picks

    Duration: 02:01

  • The Jungle Book

    Duration: 08:08

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

with music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe is on at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton until Sunday 31 December 2017. It tours around the UK from Thursday 25 January聽until Saturday 12 May 2018, starting at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

McMafia

McMafia
, an 8 part series聽starts聽on Monday 1 January 2018 at 21:00 on 91热爆 One.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest James Norton
Interviewed Guest Penny Martin
Interviewed Guest Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Interviewed Guest Norman Lebrecht
Interviewed Guest Alexandra Coghlan
Performer Joe Stilgoe
Producer Julian May

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  • Wed 20 Dec 2017 19:15

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