Dawn French, Soprano Amanda Forbes, Writer Valeria Luiselli
Dawn French talks about her latest book. Soprano Amanda Forbes on the inspiration behind her latest work - the poems of Carole Anne Duffy. Plus writer Valeria Luiselli.
Dawn French is best-known as a comedian. But she's also a writer and actor. She's been nominated for seven British Academy Television Awards and won a
BAFTA Fellowship with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders. She talks to Jane about her career, her life and her new book, a biographical diary.
Carole Anne Duffy published her anthology of The World's Wife in 1999. Since then many of the poems featured have gone on to be exam set texts and
even inspired a play. Now some are being developed into an Opera. Amanda Forbes, the soprano taking the lead role, explains why the work has such
wide appeal.
Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the independent film company he co-founded and catapulted to Oscar glory, felled by a mushrooming sexual harassment scandal that has hobbled his status as a media mogul and left his future in Hollywood in jeopardy
Jane talks to Laura Bates Founder of Everyday Sexism Project about why more of the actors are not coming forward to support those that have spoken out
In 2015 Valeria Luiselli, an award-winning Mexican author, began working as a volunteer interpreter in New York City's federal immigration court. Her job was to ask unaccompanied children who had crossed the border from Mexico a standardized series of questions. She would then translate their answers from
Spanish into English. Jane asks Luiselli about her career and how her experiences of talking to these immigrant children influenced her latest work,
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions.
Presenter Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell.
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Dawn French
Duration: 10:58
Harassment in Hollywood
Duration: 11:08
Writer Valeria Luiselli
Duration: 11:45
Soprano Amanda Forbes
Duration: 08:02
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Role Contributor Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell Interviewed Guest Valeria Luiselli Interviewed Guest Dawn French Interviewed Guest Amanda Forbes Interviewed Guest Laura Bates Broadcast
- Mon 9 Oct 2017 10:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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