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Miss Saigon stars and D-Day preview with Seth Lakeman

Claudia interviews the stars of Miss Saigon, Eva Noblezada and Alistair Brammer, plus Seth Lakeman chats about performing in Radio 2's D-Day Concert.

Claudia interviews the stars of Miss Saigon Eva Noblezada and Alistair Brammer who have just opened at The Prince Edward Theatre. Folk singer/songwriter Seth Lakeman about performing in next week's Radio 2 D-Day Concert and why it will mean so much to his family. Alice Frain and Gabriel Swartland who will let you know how you can see that special Friday Night Is Music Night Concert from The Royal Albert Hall at your local cinema. Reporter Anna Bailey speaks to Charlize Theron about staring in the comedy western "A Million Ways To Die In The West", Joe Haddow is at the Hay Festival and caught up with Sebastian Faulks and Ruby Wax. Helen O'Hara brings us this weeks film reviews and Book Critic Samantha Buckley has the recommended reads.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Music Played

  • Bellowhead

    Gosport Nancy

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 002.
  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Eric Clapton

    Promises

    • The Cream Of Eric Clapton.
    • Polydor.
  • Alexandre Desplat

    Godzilla Theme

    • Godzilla Soundtrack.
    • Watertower Music.
  • Elbow

    My Sad Captains

    • The Take Off & Landing Of Everything.
    • Fiction.
    • 001.
  • Ella Fitzgerald

    It's A Lovely Day Today

    • Ella Sings Berlin & Arlen.
    • World Record Club.
  • Gabrielle

    When A Woman

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.
  • Elton John

    Kiss The Bride

    • The Very Best Of Elton John.
    • Rocket.
  • Seth Lakeman

    King & Country

    • Freedom Fields.
    • I SCREAM RECORDS.
    • 06.
  • John Lennon & Yoko Ono

    (Just Like) Starting Over

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Parlophone.
  • Madness

    It Must Be Love

    • The 80's Love Album (Various Artists.
    • Virgin.
  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.
  • The Pierces

    Kings

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • The Shires

    Nashville Grey Skies

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.
  • Simon Bowman & Lea Salonga

    Sun and Moon

    • Miss Saigon.
    • 07.
  • Rod Stewart

    Handbags and Gladrags

    • Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Album.
    • Mercury.
  • The Walker Brothers

    Deadlier Than The Male

    • Best Of Scott Walker & The Walker Bro.
    • Fontana.

Eva Noblezada & Alistair Brammer

Eva Noblezada & Alistair Brammer

Stars of the West End, Eva Noblezada and Alistair Brammer talk to Claudia about Miss Saigon.

Miss Saigon is on at The Prince Edward Theatre and taking bookings until 25th April 2015

Seth Lakeman

Seth Lakeman

Next Friday marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day and on Radio 2 the commemoration culminates in a special Friday Night is Music Night from London's Royal Albert Hall with The 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra with Jeremy VIne, Dermot O'Leary and Louise Minchin retelling the story with key events from that momentous day.

There will be performances from Patrick Stewart in the role of Sir Winston Churchill, and Katherine Jenkins will be singing a virtual duet with Dame Vera Lynn. Also playing a highly emotional part in the concert is Seth Lakeman.

Friday Night Is Music Night - D-Day Special is love from The Royal Albert Hall on 6th June at 8pm here on Radio 2.

Helen O'Hara with the film review

Helen O'Hara with the film review


X-Men: Days Of Future Past (3D)

Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Nicholas Hoult

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in 'X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST'. The beloved characters from the original 鈥淴-Men鈥 film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from "X-Men: First Class鈥 in an epic battle that must change the past 鈥 to save our future.

X-Man:听 Days of Future Past is out now and Rated 12A


Godzilla (3D)

Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston

The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

Godzilla is out now and Rated 12A

Edge of Tomorrow (3D)

Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Lara Pulver, Jeremy Piven, Charlotte Riley

A soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle, though he becomes better skilled along the way.

Edge of Tomorrow is out now and Rated 12A


DVD/BLU-RAY 鈥 Dallas Buyers Club

Director: Jean-Marc Vall茅e听
Starring:听 Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.

Dallas Buyers Club is out on DVD and BluRay this Monday, Rated 15

Samantha Buckley with the book review

Samantha Buckley with the book review

A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin published by Canongate Books

It is 1947 and Sherlock Holmes is 93 years old, living a quiet life in Surrey, keeping bees and writing what he intends to be the definitive guide to the art of detection. The story moves between events in his present life and two significant periods in his past, most recently a trip to Japan post Hiroshima, and further back to a mystery he investigated in his prime.

An Appetite for Violets by Martine Bailey published by Hodder & Stoughton

This is set in 18th Century Europe, the main character is Biddy Leigh a cook at a English Manor House dreaming of her imminent marriage and her plans to set up her own tavern. All her plans are thrown into chaos by the arrival of the new, very young and very spoilt, mistress of the manor who takes a special interest in Biddy. Forced to accompany her mistress to Italy, Biddy, clutching her beloved recipe book, becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy.


Personal Pick - Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain published by听 Orion

It鈥檚 80 years since Vera Brittain published her account of her life during the First World War and it is still one of the most poignant and compelling accounts of that time that I鈥檝e ever read. She lost her fianc茅, her brother and two of her closest male friends in the war and she worked as a nurse for the Voluntary Aid Detachment in a almost constant state of near-exhaustion and grief.

A Million Ways To Die In The West

A Million Ways To Die In The West

Million Ways to Die in the West

If you鈥檙e a fan of westerns then you鈥檙e in for a treat because Seth McFarlane has written a brand new comedy Western for the big screen.

It鈥檚 called A Million Ways to Die in the West and it takes a satirical look at how dangerous life could be for people living in the Wild West during the eighteen hundreds.

It stars Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried and Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron. Our Arts Correspondent Anna Bailey caught up with Charlize to find out more about her twirling guns.

A Million Ways to Die in the West is released in cinemas across the country this weekend.

A Hay In The Life

A Hay In The Life
Radio 2 Book Club reporter Joe Haddow spends a day in the life of the Hay festival and talks to Tony Parsons, Ruby Wax, Sebastian Faulks about what brings them here time and time again

Broadcast

  • Fri 30 May 2014 22:00