Barbara Hepworth, Scientology, Nell Zink, Carnegie Medals
Samira Ahmed visits the new Barbara Hepworth show. She also talks to novelist Nell Zink and the winners of the awards that children's authors and illustrators really want to win.
Samira Ahmed visits the major new Barbara Hepworth exhibition that features some of her most significant sculptures in wood, stone and bronze, alongside rarely seen textiles, photographs, collages and film. Samira talks to its curator, Penelope Curtis, whose last last show as director of Tate Britain this is.
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the awards that authors and illustrators say they 'most want to win'. Both are awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding books for young people: one for the story the other for the illustrations. We speak to this year's winners, Tanya Landman and William Grill, both of whose books take historical subject matter, Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic and the American South immediately after the Civil War.
Going Clear is a new film about scientology by documentary director Alex Gibney. It is based on Lawrence Wright's book by the same name and Gibney speaks with former leaders and defectors of the church. Tim Robey reviews.
Nell Zink used to write just for herself, sometimes sending her stories to a pen-pal, until she entered into a chance correspondence with Jonathan Franzen who encouraged her to publish her fiction. Her first book, The Wallcreeper, was named one of the100 notable books of 2014 by The New York Times. She talks to Samira about her second novel, Mislaid, which explores race and identity in rural Virginia.
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Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World
Duration: 07:25
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Barbara Hepworth at Tate Britain
Duration: 08:12
The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
Duration: 06:00
Going Clear
Duration: 05:07
Nell Zink
Duration: 08:19
Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures for a Modern World is showing at from 24 June to 25 October 2015.
Main image photograph: Val Wilmer, 漏 Bowness, Hepworth聽Estate
2015 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medal.
Samira talks to the winners of the.
Going Clear
Tim Robey reviews Going Clear, a film about Scientology by Alex Gibney.
Nell Zink
Mislaid by Nell Zink is published by Harper Collins.Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Penelope Curtis Interviewed Guest Tanya Landman Interviewed Guest William Grill Interviewed Guest Tim Robey Interviewed Guest Nell Zink Broadcast
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