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Sir Tom Stoppard, Ryan Bancroft, Museum of The Year, Nick Laird

Sir Tom Stoppard on Leopoldstadt, Proms conductor Ryan Bancroft, Museum of the Year - Derry/Londonderry CCA, novelist Nick Laird on grief

Sir Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning play Leopoldstadt closed because of Covid in March 2020. Tomorrow it returns to the same stage and the same cast will tell again the story a Jewish family, in Vienna in the first half of the 20 century. They fled the pogroms in the East and later suffered terribly under Nazi rule. The plot has parallels with Stoppard's own family - all four of Stoppard's grandparents perished in concentration camps. He talks about returning to the theatre, if he has revised the play in the interregnum, and if he is tempted to revisit his earlier plays.

We hear from the first of the five museums and galleries shortlisted for the prestigious 拢100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021. This year鈥檚 prize will reflect the resilience and imagination of museums during the pandemic, and today we hear from Catherine Hemelryk from the Centre of Contemporary Art in Derry-Londonderry.

Ryan Bancroft has just finished his first year as the Principal Conductor for 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales, and this week he makes two appearances at the 91热爆 Proms. He tells us how he became a conductor, his excitement for music by Welsh composers and his favourite aspects of American music.

Novelist Nick Laird talks to us about writing grief as he creates an elegy for his father

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Oliver Jones

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Sir Tom Stoppard

Leopoldstadt is on at , London until 30 Oct

Main image: Sir Tom Stoppard
Photo credit: Matt Humphrey

Museum of the Year

in Derry-Londonderry in Northern Ireland has been shortlisted for the

Ryan Bancroft

Ryan Bancroft conducts the 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales on Sun 8 Aug at 7.30 pm on 91热爆 Radio 3

Nick Laird

Nick Laird's poem

Anything Goes

Anything Goes is at the , London until 31 Oct

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