Russia and the Arts: Julian Barnes, Roxana Silbert and Suhayla El-Bushra
Anne McElvoy and novelist Julian Barnes discuss images of Russian cultural figures on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Plus the satire of Gogol and Erdman on the UK stage.
Anne McElvoy and Julian Barnes discuss images of Russian cultural figures on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Director Roxana Silbert and playwright Suhayla El-Bushra discuss putting Russian satirical dramas on stage in Britain. And Soumaya Keynes from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, journalist Ann Treneman and journalist and director of the Institute for Government Peter Riddell discuss the theatre of the budget.
Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky runs at the National Portrait Gallery from 21 April - 24 July
Meanwhile Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery hosts Elizabeth to Victoria: British Portraits from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Julian Barnes' most recent novel The Noise of Time is inspired by the life of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Roxana Silbert is directing a version of Gogol's The Government Inspector written by David Harrower which is on stage at Birmingham Rep in association with Ramps on the Moon. It runs from March 19th to 26th. It then tours to
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 6-16 April
West Yorkshire Playhouse 20-30 April
Nottingham Playhouse 4-14 May
Theatre Royal Stratford East 18-28 May
The Everyman, Liverpool 1-11 June
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield 17-25 June
Suhayla El-Bushra has written an adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide which is being directed by Nadia Fall at the National Theatre in London. It runs in rep from April 6th.
Last on
More episodes
Previous
Russian Culture Inwards and Outwards
Anne McElvoy discusses Russian Eurasianism, the Soviet Union and Africa, and Eisenstein.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
---|---|
Presenter | Anne McElvoy |
Interviewed Guest | Julian Barnes |
Interviewed Guest | Roxana Silbert |
Interviewed Guest | Suhayla El-Bushra |
Interviewed Guest | Soumaya Keynes |
Interviewed Guest | Ann Treneman |
Producer | Eliane Glaser |
Broadcast
- Thu 17 Mar 2016 22:00成人快手 Radio 3
Featured in...
Visual Arts—Free Thinking
Dorothy Bohm, Edward Burtynsky, Sean Scully, Dada, Elizabeth Price, Edmund de Waal
Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019
Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE all programmes, images, clips & features from 2017's festival
Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life