Samuel West, Bloodline, AD Miller, Spring in Verse
With Samuel West on directing After Electra on stage, author AD Miller on his novel The Faithful Couple, Togo Igawa on haiku in springtime and Netflix drama Bloodline reviewed.
Samuel West discusses directing April De Angelis's black comedy After Electra at the The Theatre Royal Plymouth in which secrets of the past take their toll on family relationships.
Dark secrets too of a seemingly successful American family feature in a new thriller Bloodline from Netflix, whose previous productions include House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. Viv Groskop reviews.
AD Miller was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize with his debut novel Snowdrops, set in Moscow. He discusses his follow up, The Faithful Couple, a contemporary morality tale about a friendship between two men who meet on a gap-year in California.
Front Row's 'Green Fuse' series, in which artists choose works that evoke spring for them, comes from Togo Igawa. Togo explains the Japanese springtime passion for cherry blossom - there is even a cherry blossom forecast on Japanese television - and reads haiku by leading poets inspired by these fleeting flowers.
Sinead O'Connor has told her fans that she will never sing her biggest hit, Nothing Compares 2 U, live again as she feels she no longer has an emotional connection with the song. David Hepworth discusses other musicians who refuse to perform their best-known songs.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner.
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Samuel West
Duration: 07:38
Bloodline
Duration: 04:21
Musicians who refuse to perform their biggest hits
Duration: 05:30
Spring in Verse
Duration: 03:29
AD Miller
Duration: 06:35
After Electra
is at the Theatre Royal Plymouth聽until 28 March. It is then showing at the in London from 2 April until 2 May 2015.
Image: After Electra cast. Credit Steve Tanner
Bloodline
is available to watch on Netflix from Friday 20 March.
Image above and right: Photo Credit: Saeed Ayani. 漏 2014 Netflix, Inc. All rights reserved.
AD Miller
The Faithful Couple by is available now in hardback and ebook 聽
Image: 漏 AD Miller
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Samuel West Interviewed Guest Viv Groskop Interviewed Guest AD Miller Interviewed Guest Togo Igawa Interviewed Guest David Hepworth Producer Olivia Skinner Broadcast
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