The Glass Menagerie, Conrad Shawcross, Sitcoms at 60
Samira Ahmed talks to artist Conrad Shawcross and reviews an Edinburgh Festival production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Plus 60 years of the British sitcom.
As the 主播大秀 celebrates 60 years of the British TV sitcom, Samira Ahmed is joined by Citizen Khan creator and star Adil Ray, comedy producer and director Paul Jackson and the BFI's TV consultant Dick Fiddy.
Joyce McMillan reviews an Edinburgh Festival production of Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany and starring Cherry Jones.
The artist Conrad Shawcross on building a vast 50 metre-tall, 20 metre-wide 'architectural intervention' beside a busy main road on the Greenwich Peninsular, encasing a new low-carbon Energy Centre.
And this week Front Row meets some of the Artists in Residence around the UK who are working in unusual places, starting in Lincoln Cathedral with Toni Watts, a manuscript illuminator.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser.
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Sitcoms at 60
Duration: 11:52
The Glass Menagerie reviewed by Joyce Mcmillan
Duration: 03:47
Conrad Shawcross
Duration: 07:04
Artists in Residence - Lincoln Cathedral
Duration: 04:39
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Conrad Shawcross: The Optic Cloak 鈥� an architectural intervention for the launches on 21 September.聽
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie directed by John Tiffany runs at the until 21 August.聽Artists in Residence - Lincoln Cathedral
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Artist in Residence Toni Watts and Reverend Canon Dr Mark Hocknull atCredits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Timothy Prosser Interviewed Guest Adil Ray Interviewed Guest Paul Jackson Interviewed Guest Dick Fiddy Interviewed Guest Joyce McMillan Interviewed Guest Conrad Shawcross Actor Toni Watts Broadcast
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