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Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James

Philip Dodd presents. With choreographer Javier de Frutos, the Everyman figure and Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation, Clive James's new poetry collection and academic Hamid Dabashi.

Philip Dodd talks to choreographer Javier de Frutos and reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman which opens at London's National Theatre starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. Novelist Michael Arditti and theologian Elaine Storkey discuss the production and historian and journalist Tim Stanley joins in a wider discussion about the idea of an Everyman figure.

Everyman is in rep at the National Theatre from April until mid July and will be broadcast live to cinemas on July 16th.

Poet Clive James has just published a new collection Sentenced to Life. For Free Thinking he introduces and reads the title poem in the new collection. You can find an extended interview with him first broadcast on December 18th on the i-player or available as an arts and ideas podcast.

New York-based Iranian intellectual Hamid Dabashi discusses his book Can non Europeans Think and the decision of the New York branch of PEN to honour Charlie Hebdo.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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Javier De Frutos and Rufus Norris on Everyman - Tue 2 June, 6pm, Olivier Theatre

The choreographer and director discuss this new production.

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest Michael Arditti
Interviewed Guest Elaine Storkey
Interviewed Guest Tim Stanley
Interviewed Guest Clive James
Interviewed Guest Hamid Dabashi
Producer Zahid Warley

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  • Wed 29 Apr 2015 22:00

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