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Ridley Scott, Mark Wigglesworth, Ceramics in Stoke

Arts news. Director Ridley Scott discusses his new film The Martian, ENO's Mark Wigglesworth on the new season, plus a report on the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent.

Director Ridley Scott discusses his latest film The Martian, starring Matt Damon who has to fend for himself on the red planet when he's left for dead by his colleagues.

English National Opera's new Music Director Mark Wigglesworth discusses the the ENO's new season which opens with Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Ceramics, once seen as a rather dusty area of the arts, have been rising in popularity. As the British Ceramics Biennial opens in Stoke-On-Trent, its co-founder, Barney Hare Duke, and Janet Barnes - Chief Executive of York Museums Trust, which recently opened a Centre of Ceramic Art - discuss the ceramics revival.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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  • Ridley Scott

    Duration: 10:25

  • Hartwig Fischer

    Duration: 02:56

  • Mark Wigglesworth

    Duration: 09:08

  • Ceramics

    Duration: 05:29

Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

is in cinemas from Wednesday 30 September, certificate 12A.


Ceramics

Ceramics

The is in Stoke-on-Trent until 8 November 2015.

opened this summer and is based at聽York聽Art Gallery.

Images: left - Charlotte Hodes - 'Spode Trees and Dressed Silhouettes', 2015 / right - Paul Scott, 'Scott鈥檚 Cumbrian Blue(s), Eden Tree' 2009. Courtesy of the artists.


Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

English National Opera's聽 is at the London Coliseum until 20 October 2015.

Image: Rosie Aldridge, Patricia Racette, Peter Hoare 漏 Clive Barda.聽

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Presenter John Wilson
Interviewed Guest Ridley Scott
Interviewed Guest Mark Wigglesworth
Interviewed Guest Barney Hare Duke
Interviewed Guest Janet Barnes
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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