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Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon

Front Row is live from Belfast with performance from folk singer Cara Dillon and news of a missing artwork by Rodin.

Two adaptations of Rhinoceros by Eug猫ne Ionesco open this month, one in Belfast and a Welsh language adaptation in Cardiff. The adaptors Patrick J O鈥橰eilly and Manon Steffan Ros both join Kathy Clugston to discuss how this 1950s play about the rise of Fascism speaks to audiences now.

Singer Cara Dillon is known globally for her interpretations of traditional Irish songs. As she performs at the Belfast International Arts Festival, she explains why she鈥檚 taking a new direction with her upcoming album, the first time she鈥檚 released an album of original songs.

In the first of Front Row鈥檚 interviews with the authors shortlisted for this year鈥檚 Booker Prize, Paul Lynch talks about Prophet Song, his dystopian novel which imagines a future in which Ireland is in the grips of an oppressive regime.

And as Glasgow Museums say that they are unable to locate a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, arts correspondent Jan Patience explains that it may not be the only major work of art that鈥檚 gone missing.

Presenter: Kathy Clugston
Producer: Olivia Skinner

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  • Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:15

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