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Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

2020 Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction nominee Hilary Mantel on The Mirror and the Light the last in her Thomas Cromwell series, and Ai Wei Wei on his new work The History of Bombs.

In the run-up to the announcement of the winner of the 2020 Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction on the 9th of September, Front Row will be hearing from each of the six novelists on this year鈥檚 shortlist. We begin today with Hilary Mantel, whose novel The Mirror and the Light is the conclusion of her wildly acclaimed Thomas Cromwell series, which began with Wolf Hall in 2009.

Ai Wei Wei鈥檚 latest work has opened to the public. The Chinese-born, Europe-based artist has created a piece for London鈥檚 Imperial War Museum which takes over the entire floorspace of the atrium, depicting The History of Bombs

We heard this morning that theatres will have to wait until November to be told whey can re-open without social distancing. That will be too late to plan the lucrative pantomime season. We talk to Julian Bird of UK Theatre about what this means.

Electronic at the Design Museum. Design Museum director Tim Marlow on recreating the thumping atmosphere of a nightclub for their new exhibition about electronic music, from Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers

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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is on the shortlist for with her novel, , published by Fourth Estate
Both images (c) 大象传媒聽

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei
is at The Imperial War Museum, London, from 1st August 2020 to 24 May 2021
Image credit: Ai Weiwei

Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers

Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers
is at聽 The Design Museum, London from 31 July 2020 until 14th Feb 2021

Image credit: Gil Lefauconnier聽

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