Jodie Whittaker, Nicola Barker, Jason Bateman - plus Tony Kushner's Queer Icon
Nicola Barker on her new novel H(a)ppy, and Tony Kushner on Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. Plus Jason Bateman on Ozarks, and Jodie Whittaker shares her podcast and music highlights.
Nicola Barker is one of Britain's most unconventional novelists. Her new novel H(A)PPY is set in a post-post apocalyptic future where everyone is eternally young, eternally knowledgeable and eternally happy, until cracks start to appear. Nicola talks to Samira about the novel.
For Front Row's Queer Icons, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner champions Alison Bechdel's graphic novel Fun Home, which has been turned into a hit musical.
In the new Netflix drama Ozarks Jason Bateman plays a financial adviser trying to keep his family safe from a Mexican drug cartel after a money laundering scheme goes wrong. Although very different in tone to TV shows like Arrested Development and films like Horrible Bosses, Bateman is once again cast as the most normal character, the one the audience can connect with. He talks to Samira Ahmed about the appeal of such roles, why he wanted to direct the series and life as a child star.
In Front Row's new series Hooked, actors, writers and musicians share the films, podcasts and music they currently love.
Actress Jodie Whittaker - who has just been revealed as the 13th Doctor Who - explains why she's hooked on the podcast S-Town and Pete Tong's album Classic House.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jack Soper.
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Nicola Barker
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Tony Kushner
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Jason Bateman
Duration: 08:24
Jodie Whittaker
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Photo credit: Eammon McCabe
H(A)PPY is published on 20 JulyÂJason Bateman
Samira Ahmed and Jason Bateman
Ozark is available on Netflix from Fri 21 July
Queer Icons - Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner's Queer Icon is Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun HomeHooked - Jodie Whittaker
Jodie Whittaker
Jodie is hooked on: Pete Tong’s ‘Classic House’ album with
The Heritage Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley
Main image: Jodie Whittaker
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Nicola Barker Interviewed Guest Tony Kushner Interviewed Guest Jason Bateman Interviewed Guest Jodie Whittaker Producer Jack Soper Broadcast
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