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Terry Gilliam, Samantha Strauss, Risk in art: Jeremy Deller, Picasso and Paper exhibition

Terry Gilliam on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Samantha Strauss, Risk in art: Jeremy Deller, Picasso and Paper exhibition

It's taken 25 years and several false starts but Terry Gilliam has at last succeeded in bringing his version of Don Quixote to the big screen. The director discusses his jinxed project, now that he has completed The Man who Killed Don Quixote, which stars Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.

Samantha Strauss, creator of the hit Australian teen drama series Dance Academy, talks to John Wilson about her new drama series The End starring Harriet Walter and Francis O’Connor which uses dark humour to tell the story of a family’s struggle with assisted dying and the nature of choice.

Front Row's Risk season continues. We’re talking to figures across the arts about their greatest career risks. Tonight, artist Jeremy Deller tells us about the risks involved in creating The Battle of Orgreave, his 2001 re-enactment of the violent confrontation between miners and police in 1984.

Picasso and Paper: Throughout his career, which spanned eight decades, Pablo Picasso worked with paper – not just drawing and painting on it but manipulating it. He used several printmaking techniques, made collages by cutting and pasting and created sculptures by burning and tearing paper. The Royal Academy’s new exhibition brings together 300 works in a variety of forms, from different periods of the artist’s life, but all created with this single medium. Morgan Quaintance reviews.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Oliver Jones

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The Man who Killed Don Quixote

The Man who Killed Don Quixote
Cast and crew
Photo credit: Sparky Pictures

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is in cinemas from 31 Jan, cert 15

Main image: Terry Gilliam
Photo credit: Sparky

Samantha Strauss

Samantha Strauss
Harriet Walter
Photo credit: Sky Atlantic

The End begins on Sky Atlantic on 10 Feb

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