Irvine Welsh's Performers, Bookshop economics, England Is Mine, CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues
Irvine Welsh, bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon Stone Butch Blues.
Irvine Welsh discusses Performers, a new one-act play he has co-written with Dean Cavanagh about the '60s cult film Performance. Directed by Donald Cammell and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, it starred James Fox and Mick Jagger. Welsh's play dramatises the casting process in which East End criminals were sought for the villain roles.
When James Daunt became Managing Director of the bookshop chain Waterstones in 2011, the company was receiving 拢27m per year selling its window space and high-profile in-store locations to publishers who wanted greater visibility for their books. He immediately stopped the practice, but what were the repercussions? James Daunt and Will Atkinson, Managing Director of Atlantic Books, discuss bookshop economics and the role of the 'recommendation'.
Morrissey's early years get the rock-star biopic treatment in the film England Is Mine. Anita Sethi reviews.
For Front Row's Queer Icons series, singer-songwriter and LGBTI rights activist CN Lester chooses Leslie Feinberg's semi-autobiographical novel Stone Butch Blues, a coming-of-age story about Jess Goldberg, who challenges sexual and gender definitions in a pre-Stonewall America.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Edwina Pitman.
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Irvine Welsh's Performers
Duration: 09:04
Bookshop economics
Duration: 08:13
England is Mine
Duration: 05:44
C N Lester's Queer Icon
Duration: 04:59
Irvine Welsh's Performers
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Performers by Irvine Welsh and听Dean Cavanagh听is at , Edinburgh as part of The Fringe Festival, from 04 - 13 August and 15 - 27 August 2017.
The play is suitable for those over the age of 14.
Images: Main image above: Irvine Welsh
Image to the left: A scene from Performers
Image credit: Alex Brenner
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England is Mine
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opens in UK cinemas on 04 August 2017, certificate 15.
Image: Jack Lowden as the young Morrissey in England is Mine
CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues
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CN Lester's Queer Icon is book Stone Butch Blues.
The , presented by Alan Carr, is on Radio 4 on Tuesday 08 August 2017 at 11.30am
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