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Poet Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger

Poet Nikki Giovanni and Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger, and the Ashmolean鈥檚 new exhibition of Flemish drawings.

Nikki Giovanni is one of only a handful of poets whose work has been published as a Penguin Modern Classic in their own life time. A key figure of America's Black Arts Movement as both a writer an activist, she speaks to Tom about her life and career.

A well-known actor, Andrew Buchan has now turned to writing with Passenger, the new ITV crimes drama set in the gothic landscape of the Lancashire-Yorkshire border.

And Oxford's Ashmolean museum has a new exhibition of Flemish drawings, Bruegel to Rubens. Artist Jonathan Yeo and critic Jonathan Jones, author of Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance, join to discuss.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

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  • Mon 25 Mar 2024 19:15

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