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Tokyo: Art & Photography, Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed, Wellcome Photography Prize

Curator Lena Fritsch on Tokyo: Art & Photography at The Ashmolean. Series 2 of Ted Lasso with Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed. The Wellcome Photography Prize winner

Tokyo: Art & Photography at The Ashmolean in Oxford is a celebration of the city currently hosting the Olympics. The exhibition鈥檚 curator Lena Fritsch discusses the show which spans the arts of the Edo period (1603-1868) when the country was officially closed to the outside world, to today, and considers the sprawling metropolis鈥檚 appetite for the new and innovative.

Comedy series Ted Lasso revolves around the eponymous American football coach who, fish-out-of-water, comes to London to coach a fictional football team. Its uncynical, warm-and-fuzzy feel has resounded with audiences, and writer Brett Goldstein, who stars as footballer Roy Kent, and co-star Nick Mohammed (kit-man Nathan) join Tom to discuss the show鈥檚 slow burn with audiences, the meaning of football, and how to avoid mawkishness in a show which makes a feature of 鈥渘iceness鈥.

Returning for its third year, the Wellcome Photography Prize tells provocative visual stories about the health challenges of our time, combatting taboos, bringing complex medical issues to life and showing how health affects society. Jameisha Prescod, the 2021 winner of the 拢10,000 single image prize, joins Tom to discuss her work.

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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Tokyo: Art & Photography

听is on at The Ashmolean in Oxford until January 2022.
Main image: TokyoImage credit:听Ninagawa Mika

Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed

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  • Wed 28 Jul 2021 19:15

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