David Bowie's Blackstar, Emma Rice, Don Paterson, Jericho
Arts news with John Wilson, including David Bowie's new jazz-influenced album Blackstar and new artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Emma Rice on her first season.
David Bowie's new jazz-influenced album Blackstar will be released on Friday to coincide with the singer's 69th birthday. Critic Kate Mossman gives her response to Bowie's 25th studio album, produced by long-term collaborator Tony Visconti, which has been described as 'the most extreme album of his career'.
Emma Rice, the incoming Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, discusses plans for her 'wonder season' of plays the theatre will be staging from this summer.
Front Row's interviews with the winners of the Costa Book Awards continue with Don Paterson, whose collection, 40 Sonnets, has won the Poetry prize.
ITV's new historical drama Jericho, set in a Yorkshire mining town in the 1870s, is reviewed by critic Rachel Cooke.
Netflix's Making A Murderer is the latest true-crime documentary to hit the headlines. Seasoned documentary filmmaker Roger Graef considers the appeal of stories of possible miscarriages of justice.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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David Bowie's Blackstar
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David Bowie's Blackstar
Duration: 07:28
Emma Rice
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Jericho
Duration: 04:14
True Crime Documentaries
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Don Paterson
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David Bowie
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鈥檚 new album 鈽� is available from Friday 8 January聽
Emma Rice
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Emma Rice announces her first season as the new artistic director of Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe: . 聽It opens with A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream on 30 April 2016.
Photo credit: Steve Tanner
Jericho
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Jericho begins on ITV on Thursday 7 January at 9pm.听
True Crime Documentaries
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is available to watch on Netflix now.
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is available to watch on All 4
Image: Steven Avery from the documentary series Making A Murderer. Photo Credit: Netflix
Costa Poetry Award Winner
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The winner of the 2015 Costa Poetry Award is 40 Sonnets by .
Photo credit: Murdo Macleod.
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Kate Mossman Interviewed Guest Emma Rice Interviewed Guest Don Paterson Interviewed Guest Rachel Cooke Interviewed Guest Roger Graef Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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