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David Attenborough's cameraman, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry winner

The cameraman on David Attenborough's series Seven Worlds, One Planet; Fiona Benson has won the Forward Prize for best poetry collection. Plus, the Bridget Riley retrospective

David Attenborough's new documentary series Seven Worlds, One Planet has been four years in the making, we speak to Bertie Gregory, a wildlife cameraman who was at the heart of the show.

The new retrospective of the work of the pioneering artist Bridget Riley at the Hayward Gallery in London features over 200 works spanning her 70-year career. Louisa Buck reviews the exhibition that features Riley鈥檚 famous black-and-white works of the 1960s to her more recent works as she continues to play with abstraction and perception.

The Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection 2019 has been awarded to Fiona Benson for her collection Vertigo & Ghost. She explains why Zeus and his relations with mortals and nymphs is at the heart of the poems.

Drill artist Rico Racks has been banned from using drug slang in his music after being convicted for supplying class A drugs. The list of words include 鈥渢rapping鈥 meaning 鈥渄ealing鈥 and 鈥渃onnect鈥 - a drugs contact. Journalist and youth worker Ciaran Thapar reports.

Presenter : Samira Ahmed
Producer : Dymphna Flynn

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28 minutes

David Attenborough's cameraman

David Attenborough's cameraman

Seven Worlds, One Planet is on Sundays on 大象传媒1 from 27 October 2019, and on the 大象传媒 聽iPlayer

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Main image above: Bertie Gregory, one of the Seven World One Planet camera operators聽 on location with his camera.

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Image to the left: an image from Seven Worlds, One Planet - a young Gentoo penguin with its remaining down feathers in a Mohican style.

Image credit: 大象传媒 NHU

Bridget Riley exhibition

Bridget Riley exhibition

The is at the Hayward Gallery, London from 23 October 2019聽until 26 January 2020.

Image: Bridget Riley

Pause, 1964

(c) Bridget Riley 2019.聽 All rights reserved

Forward Poetry Prize winner

Forward Poetry Prize winner

Image: Fiona Benson

Image credit: /Adrian Pope

Fiona Benson's 2019聽 poetry volume, is out now in paperback and as an eBook.

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