Joel Meyerowitz, The Girl on the Train on stage, the Famous Women Dinner Service
Veteran photographer Joel Meyerowitz, The Girl on the Train at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service, and Hugh Grant's career.
As he celebrates his 80th birthday, photographer Joel Meyerowitz looks back at his career which is the focus of his new book of photos, Where I Find Myself. It features his early work as a street photographer in New York in the '60s, his images of Ground Zero immediately after the 9/11 attacks, and his most recent still lifes in Tuscany.
In a unique commission to open the 2018 Charleston Festival, novelist Ali Smith will be performing a piece of creative prose inspired by the Famous Women Dinner Service, a work of 50 ceramic plates featuring the portraits of historical female figures, produced by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in 1932. Kirsty discusses the significance and the artistry of the dinner service with Ali Smith, Darren Clarke, curator at Charleston, and art dealer Robert Travers.
The Girl on the Train, the psychological thriller by Paula Hawkins, became an overnight bestseller and was later adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt as the troubled Rachel who wakes up with a hangover and an uneasy feeling she's seen something she shouldn't have seen. Now it has been adapted for the stage and opens at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds with Jill Halfpenny as Rachel. Theatre Critic Nick Ahad has been to see it.
As Hugh Grant stars as the disgraced MP Jeremy Thorpe in the 麻豆社 drama A Very English Scandal, TV critic Emma Bullimore charts the evolution of Hugh Grant's career, from romcoms to recent darker roles.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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The Girl on the Train on stage
Duration: 06:09
Joel Meyerowitz
Duration: 09:36
Hugh Grant
Duration: 03:52
The Famous Women Dinner Service
Duration: 08:01
Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz's book is out now in hardback.
is giving a talk for Photo London called at Somerset House, London on 19 May 2018.
Images:
Main image above:
Rescue workers on the plaza, New York city, 2001
Image credit: Courtesy and copyright of Joel Meyerowitz
Image to the Left: Joel Meyerowitz
Image credit: Courtesy and copyright of Joel Meyerowitz
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The Girl on the Train
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听starring Jill Halfpenny is at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds until 09 June 2018.
Image: Jill Halfpenny in rehearsal at West Yorkshire Playhouse's production of The Girl on the Train.
Image credit: Richard Davenport
Hugh Grant
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Hugh Grant stars as Jeremy Thorpe in 麻豆社 One's 3-part series A Very English Scandal,
which starts at 9.00 pm on Sunday 27 May 2018.
Image: Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal
Image credit: 麻豆社/Blueprint Television Ltd
The Famous Women Dinner Service
presents 听 at The in Sussex, on 18 May 2018, where听Ali recreates The 听 as creative prose.
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Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Joel Meyerowitz Interviewed Guest Ali Smith Interviewed Guest Darren Clarke Interviewed Guest Robert Travers Interviewed Guest Nick Ahad Interviewed Guest Emma Bullimore Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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