Yazz Ahmed, Lucy Bailey, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Musician Yazz Ahmed performs live. A review of Francis Ford Coppola's new recut version of The Godfather Part III. Plus Lucy Bailey directs Oleanna by David Mamet.
Yazz Ahmed, trumpeter and composer, and winner of the Innovation Award at tonight鈥檚 Ivors Awards, joins us in the studio. Yazz鈥檚 music blends jazz, arabic scales and rhythms, electronics, and the music of Bahrain, where she spent her childhood.
Francis Ford Coppola's first two Godfather films are considered cinematic masterpieces, but The Godfather Part III never received such acclaim. Thirty years after its release, Coppola has recut the film and renamed it The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Film critic Tim Robey gives his verdict.
When Oleanna was first staged in 1992 it prompted intense responses. 鈥淧eople used to get into fistfights in the lobby,鈥 David Mamet said. In his play a student visits a professor for help, but then lodges a complaint of sexual harassment that will ruin his career. How will a new production fare today, after Me Too and Harvey Weinstein's conviction? Samira Ahmed hears from the director, Lucy Bailey.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser
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