Nicholas Hytner, Peep Show, Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, Waste review
Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including director Nicholas Hytner on The Lady in the Van, David Mitchell and Robert Webb on Peep Show and the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2015.
Director Nicholas Hytner describes the filming of The Lady in the Van which tells the story of how Miss Shepherd, a cantankerous, homeless old woman, came to live in a derelict van in writer Alan Bennett's driveway for 15 years.
The Goldsmiths Prize is awarded annually and celebrates inventive writing. Previous winners include Eimear McBride and Ali Smith. As the 2015 prize is awarded this evening, we'll be announcing the result and talking to the winner from the ceremony.
Waste by Harley Granville Barker is, says Richard Eyre, one of the best English plays of the 20th century, despite being banned in 1907. It's a drama of political intrigue, scandal, power-broking by an elite and gender politics. Critic Sam Marlowe reviews the new production at the National Theatre, directed by Roger Michell.
Amid much hullabaloo the Bodleian Library in Oxford has acquired and put online Shelley's Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. But this long-lost poem was discovered almost a decade ago. So why has it not been available until today? Michael Rosen offers his view on the background to the story.
Channel 4's longest-running comedy series, Peep Show, begins its final series tonight. Kirsty talks to its stars, David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.
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David Mitchell and Robert Webb
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Nicholas Hytner and The Lady in the Van
Duration: 08:55
Shelley's missing poem
Duration: 03:44
Waste by Harley Granville Barker
Duration: 05:16
The 2015 Goldsmiths Prize winner
Duration: 03:17
Final series of Peep Show begins
Duration: 07:13
The Lady In The Van
听is in cinemas from Friday 13 November, certificate 12A.听
Shelley's Poetical Essay
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Image Credit: Bodleian Libraries, University of OxfordWaste
is running at the National Theatre until Saturday 19 March 2016.
Photo Credit: Johan Persson
Goldsmiths Prize
Announced during tonight's Front Row, the winner of the 2015听听is by Kevin Barry.听
Front Row's recent听interview with Kevin听is available to .
Peep Show
The ninth and final series of听 begins tonight at 10pm on Channel 4.Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Nicholas Hytner Interviewed Guest Sam Marlowe Interviewed Guest Michael Rosen Interviewed Guest David Mitchell Interviewed Guest Robert Webb Producer Rebecca Armstrong Broadcasts
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