Anomalisa, Seamus Heaney's The Aeneid, Handel at Vauxhall, In the Age of Giorgione
Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including a review of Anomalisa, Seamus Heaney's The Aeneid, Handel at Vauxhall's Pleasure Gardens and Venetian painter Giorgione's influence.
Radio 4's Book of the Week is Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of The Aeneid, read by Ian McKellen. Samira Ahmed speaks to Catherine Heaney, the poet's daughter, and his editor, Matthew Hollis, about her father's love of the poem, the place of Latin in his life, and bringing the poet's final work out of the underworld of his study and into the light of day.
Anomalisa, the Academy Award nominated stop-motion animation from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson is a darkly comedic and surreal journey into the mind of a self-help author who is crippled by the mundanity of his life until he meets a sales rep whilst on a business trip. Jenny McCartney reviews
Historian David Coke and conductor and harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham discuss a new recording of Handel's music by London Early Opera, focused on London's famed Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
The master Venetian painter Giorgione paved the way, in the early 1500s, to the golden age of luminous colour and even the first landscape in the history of art, however since he died young we actually don't know much about him. Curator Per Rumberg shows us round the Royal Academy exhibition which brings together Giorgione's key masterpieces with works by Titian, Giovanni Cariani, and Tullio Lombardo to pay tribute to his revolutionary influence.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jack Soper.
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Film Review: Anomalisa
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Seamus Heaney
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Handel at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
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Anomalisa
Anomalisa is in cinemas from Friday 11 March, certificate 15.听Seamus Heaney鈥檚 The Aeneid
The Aeneid translated by Seamus Heaney聽can be heard on聽.听Handel at Vauxhall
Handel at Vauxhall, Vol. 1 is released on Signum Records.
Image from the collection of David Coke.听In the Age of Giorgione
In the Age of Giorgione is showing at the from 12 March to 5 June 2016.听Photo (c) Jorg P. Anders聽
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Catherine Heaney Interviewed Guest Matthew Hollis Interviewed Guest Jenny McCartney Interviewed Guest David Coke Interviewed Guest Bridget Cunningham Interviewed Guest Per Rumberg Producer Jack Soper Broadcast
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