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The County & Little Fires Everywhere; The Archers; V铆kingur 脫lafsson; poetry to console

Little Fires Everywhere and The County reviewed. Plus, The Archers and Coronavirus, poetry to console, and V铆kingur 脫lafsson plays Debussy

For Front Row鈥檚 Friday review, the author Patrice Lawrence and film critic Hannah McGill consider two new options to stream. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng鈥檚 bestselling novel set in 1997 suburban America and raising questions around class and race, has been made into a drama on Amazon Prime, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The Icelandic director Gr铆mur H谩konarson won acclaim for his film Rams. In his latest film The County, he tells the story of a woman who singlehandedly takes on corruption in her local farmers鈥 cooperative. The film is available on Curzon 91热爆 Cinema.

As new episodes of The Archers return to Radio 4, we talk to James Cartwright who plays PC Harrison Burns about ways the world鈥檚 longest running soap is responding to the challenges of Coronavirus on and off air.

President Macron has announced a series of measures to help the culture sector in France recover from the effects of Covid-19. French author and cultural commentator Agnes Poirier explains how they will work and whether any lessons can be learned for sustaining the cultural landscape in Britain.

Emilia Clarke has a new online project in which she asks leading actors to perform poems to help us with the psychological difficulties of the pandemic. The poems are chosen from William Sieghart鈥檚 Poetry Pharmacy anthologies which prescribe poems 鈥榝or the heart, mind and soul鈥, and have been performed so far by Helena Bonham Carter, Idris Elba, Stephen Fry and Andrew Scott. William Sieghart joins us to discuss poetry's pwer to soothe.

And Front Row鈥檚 artist in residence pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson plays La Damoiselle e虂lue by Claude Debussy, live from Reykjavik鈥檚 Harper concert hall.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer Edwina Pitman

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The County

The County
The County is available to stream via
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Little Fires Everywhere

Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere is available to stream via .听
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Vikingur Olafsson

Vikingur Olafsson
Vikingur Olafsson is Front Row's Lockdown Artist in Residence.听
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