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My Night With Reg, Wakolda, Home Front, Kevin Eldon, The Art and Science of Exploration

Kevin Elyot's My Night With Reg revived, Argentine film Wakolda, Radio 4's Home Front, Kevin Eldon's book My Prefect Cousin, and The Art and Science of Exploration in Greenwich.

Kevin Elyot's 'My Night With Reg' was originally staged in 1994 and was the first British gay play to win a wide West End audience as well as several theatre awards. it's now being revived at London's Donmar Warehouse. How well does it stand up 2 decades later?

''Wakolda' is a film which tells the story of an Argentinean family who unwittingly shared their house with the Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele Auschwitz's "Angel of Death" without realising who he was.

As part of Radio 4's' commemorations of the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, their biggest ever drama commission Home Front' has just hit the airwaves. It's a mammoth undertaking 500 episodes, 150 hours of dialogue

The actor Kevin Eldon has written a mock-biography of his 'cousin', Paul Hamilton, a rather deluded uninspiring poet who doesn't let his own inadequacies stop his ambition and self-belief.

The Art and Science of Exploration is an exhibition in The Queen's House in Greenwich of some of the work created by artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyages around the globe in 18th Century. Their job was to produce scientific records and imaginative responses to the new unfamiliar territories that they encountered.

Razia Iqbal is joined by Jake Arnott, Emma Woolf and Kathryn Hughes. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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45 minutes

The Art and Science of Exploration 1768-80

The exhibition is on display at The Queen's House, Royal Museums Greenwich. Main Image: The Kongouro from New Holland (Kangaroo) by George Stubbs, 1772, National Maritime Museum London.

My Night With Reg

Directed by Robert Hastie, is at the Donmar Warehouse in London until 27 September 2014.

Wakolda

Written and directed by Luc铆a Puenzo, Wakolda is in cinemas from Friday 8 August, certificate 12A.

My Prefect Cousin

My Prefect Cousin by Kevin Eldon is published by Faber & Faber.

Home Front

The new drama serial continues on 大象传媒 Radio 4.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Razia Iqbal
Interviewed Guest Jake Arnott
Interviewed Guest Emma Woolf
Interviewed Guest Kathryn Hughes
Producer Oliver Jones

Broadcast

  • Sat 9 Aug 2014 19:15

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