Hit the Road & Mercury Pictures Presents reviewed, Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Bernard Cribbins remembered
Iranian director Panah Panahi's film Hit the Road and a novel about wartime Hollywood, Mercury Pictures Presents, reviewed. Plus the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at the Proms.
Panah Panahi is the son of acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Panah's film Hit the Road is a road movie with a difference as a family travel through Iran without acknowledging the real purpose of their trip. It's reviewed by Diane Roberts and Leila Latif. They've also been reading Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra, a novel set in wartime Hollywood where a new arrival is trying to escape her past.
As the newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra prepares to perform at the 91热爆 Proms on Sunday, Tom talks to conductor and founder Keri-Lynn Wilson and double-bass player Nazarii Stets, who has recently been allowed to leave Ukraine to join the orchestra鈥檚 world tour.
And Matthew Sweet joins Front Row to mark the passing of Bernard Cribbins, the much-loved and admired actor and comedian famous for Jackanory, The Railway Children and Dr Who.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Kirsty McQuire
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