Andrew Graham-Dixon on the Mona Lisa, David Bowie's Lazarus and Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock open in New York
Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Andrew Graham-Dixon on his TV documentary on the Mona Lisa, and a look at David Bowie's Lazarus and Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock.
Andrew Graham-Dixon discusses his TV documentary about the Mona Lisa, in which state-of-the-art technology has been used on the painting and reveals secrets which could significantly alter our view of Leonardo's masterpiece.
David Bowie's new stage show Lazarus - an adaptation of the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth - and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes' School of Rock have just opened in New York. Theatre critic David Cote reviews both productions.
Sharon Bolton has set her latest thriller Little Black Lies in the Falkland Islands. She discusses the novel in which friendships are torn apart when one woman's sons are killed while in the care of her best friend, and the Islanders are having to deal with the reality that someone amongst them could be a killer.
Julia Eccleshare and Young Adult Fiction writer Sophia McDougall make their recommendations for Children's and Young Adult books for Christmas.
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Cultural Christmas Presents: Children鈥檚 and Young Adult Books
Duration: 05:46
Chapters
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Mona Lisa
Duration: 07:12
Lazarus and School of Rock
Duration: 06:16
Children鈥檚 and Young Adult books for Christmas
Duration: 05:59
Sharon Bolton
Duration: 08:24
Secrets of the Mona Lisa
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is on 麻豆社 Two on Wednesday 8 December at 9pm.
Lazarus
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is at the New York Theatre Workshop until 20 January 2016.
Photo: 漏 Jan Versweyveld.
School of Rock
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聽is at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York until New Year鈥檚 Eve 2016.
Photo by Matthew Murphy.聽
Children鈥檚 and Young Adult books for Christmas
Julia Eccleshare recommended reads:
Imaginary Fred 聽by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers聽聽
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
Sophia McDougall recommended reads:
The Lie Tree 聽by Frances Hardinge
The Accident Season by Mo茂ra Fowley-Doyle
Sharon Bolton
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Little Black Lies by is out now.
Image: 漏 Mark Bassett聽
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest David Cote Interviewed Guest Sharon Bolton Interviewed Guest Julia Eccleshare Interviewed Guest Sophia McDougall Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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