Orlando Bloom, Grief as muse, Antony Gormley, Novello Award-winning rapper Dave.
Orlando Bloom on playing a cop with a sideline - assassination, comedy inspired by grief, Antony Gormley's new show and rappers winning prizes - for their poetry or their politics?
Orlando Bloom swaps Middle-earth and the high seas for a Texas trailer park in his first West End production in over a decade, Killer Joe. He talks about playing Joe Cooper, a policeman turned assassin, employed by a family at their wits end to kill their mother for a cut of her life insurance money.
Is death, the 'last taboo', finally being broken down by the arts? We consider the recent glut of writing and performance about grief with Cariad Lloyd, whose podcast Griefcast, in which she talks to fellow comedians about losing someone, swept the board at the recent British Podcast Awards. Stig is also joined by writer Kim Sherwood whose debut novel Testament is about family secrets and mourning the death of a grandfather.
It has been a winning week for rap as Kenrick Lamar, Stormzy and Dave are all awarded prestigious song-writing prizes. We ask whether it's about the music, or the message, the poetry or the politics?
In Antony Gormley's new exhibition, Subject, at the recently redesigned Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, the artist continues his investigations into the relationships between the human body and space. Critic Richard Cork gives his response to the works, some of which are new, and others not previously exhibited in the UK.
Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Julian May.
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Orlando Bloom
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Grief as muse
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Ivor Novello awards
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Antony Gormley exhibition
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Main image: Orlando Bloom in Killer Joe
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Antony Gormley's exhibition Subject is at , Cambridge until 27 AugCredits
Role Contributor Presenter Stig Abell Interviewed Guest Orlando Bloom Interviewed Guest Cariad Lloyd Interviewed Guest Kim Sherwood Interviewed Guest Jacqueline Springer Interviewed Guest Richard Cork Producer Julian May Broadcast
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