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* The Simpsons is one of the most commercially successful shows in TV history and one of the most inventive as well. The story of a blue-collar family for whom the American dream has given way to American muddling-through appeals hugely to children but also inspires nods
from adults.
Having made 300 episodes of The Simpsons, Matt Groening is visiting Britain to take part in the Bristol International Animation Festival. Front Row asked whether, as someone who started out as a radical subversive cartoonist, he felt any irritation at now making billions of dollars for Rupert Murdoch.
Matt Groening will be talking about his Desert Island Flicks at the Bristol International Animation Festival Friday 26 April at 7.00pm. The Festival started on Thursday 25 April and runs until Sunday 28 April at the Watershed Media Center in Bristol. A full-length version of that conversation will be broadcast as a Front Row Bank Holiday Special on 4 June.
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* The controversy surrounding Myra Hindley seems never ending. The public reaction to her portrait at the Royal Academy suggests the possible impact of staging a living, breathing representation of Hindley at a theatre in the county where she and her partner Ian Brady carried out their murders. The mother of one victim has already complained about the West Yorkshire Playhouse's production of And All The Children Cried.
The play, written by journalist Beatrix Campbell and social worker Judith Jones and directed by Annie Castledine, is set in a women's prison. The central characters are Myra, acknowledged as a portrait of Hindley, and a fictional child-killer called Gail. Germaine Greer saw the play for Front Row.
All The Children Cried is on at the West Yorkshire Play House, Leeds, until 11 May.
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* The programme for the 2002 大象传媒 Proms has been announced. It displays two trumpet flourishes of modernity: for the first time bookings can be made online and selected concerts will be screened on the digital channel 大象传媒4. However, Proms veterans will be keen to see that key traditions remain.
Following the September 11 emergency last year, flag-waving and the singing of Rule Britannia were deemed by the 大象传媒 as inappropriate. With the Queen's Golden Jubilee being celebrated this year, last-night conservatives were especially keen for a restoration of these elements. Front Row spoke to Proms director Nicholas Kenyon.
The 大象传媒 Proms start on 14 July 14. The programme is available in bookshops.
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* Photographer Robert Capa belongs to a time when it was widely believed that the camera couldn't lie. But Capa's most famous image, a Spanish Republican soldier apparently captured at the moment a sniper's bullet hits him, has become the subject of a debate over its veracity. The argument is restarted in two new books about the man who took some of the most famous images of war. Front Row talks to Alex Kershaw, author of a new biography.
Alex Kershaw's Blood and Champagne - The Life and Times of Robert Capa is published by Macmillan.
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On Front Row tomorrow,
Brighton on Film, and writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on the return of their Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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