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Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey

Gurinder Chadha discusses her film Viceroy's House; America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s at the Royal Academy; designer Christopher Bailey on the influence of Henry Moore.

Director Gurinder Chadha discusses her new film Viceroy's House, which tells the story of the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, seen from the vantage point of Lord and Lady Mountbatten (played by Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson) and the British and Indian staff who worked in the Viceroy's palace.

America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, a new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, begins with 'the fall' that the US experienced after the Crash of 1929. Curator Adrian Locke takes John Wilson round the exhibition which offers artists' reactions to the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise in racial tensions and a huge swell in immigration, starting with Grant Wood's famous American Gothic which has left North America for the first ever time.

The fashion house Burberry has teamed up with the Henry Moore Foundation to collaborate on an exhibition celebrating the company's new collection. Alongside some of Henry Moore's work, Christopher Bailey - chief executive and chief creative officer at Burberry - shows how the sculptor's work has influenced and inspired his designs and his working process.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House

Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House

聽is in UK cinemas from 03 March 2017, certificate 12A.

Images:

Main image above: Simon Williams (Wavell) and Hugh Bonneville (Lord Mountbatten) in Viceroy's House

Image to the left: Director Gurinder Chadha with actor Om Puri on the Viceroy's House set

Images credit: Kerry Monteen/Path茅 UK

Christopher Bailey

Christopher Bailey

Henry Moore: Inspiration & Process, a collaboration between Burberry and is at the , London聽from 21 to 27 February, 2017.

Image: Christopher Bailey, Chief Executive and Chief Creative Officer, Burberry, with John Wilson

America after the Fall

America after the Fall

is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London from 25 February - 04 June.

Image: Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930

Oil on beaver board, 78 x 65 cm

Credit: the Art Institute of Chicago, friends of American Art Collection, 1930

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Role Contributor
Presenter John Wilson
Interviewed Guest Gurinder Chadha
Interviewed Guest Adrian Locke
Interviewed Guest Christopher Bailey
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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