George Michael: Freedom, John Banville, Michael Fassbender, Performance art
Kate Mossman reviews George Michael - Freedom, John Banville discusses his latest novel, Mrs Osmond and Michael Fassbender talks about The Snowman.
Kate Mossman reviews George Michael: Freedom, the film George Michael was working when he died, in which he and a host of A-List names talk about his songs, his career, his relationships and his battles with the music industry.
The Irish writer John Banville is the highly acclaimed winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize, The Sea. His novels include The Book of Evidence, Ghosts and now, Mrs Osmond. It's a sequel to Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady. That novel famously ends inconclusively: having travelled to England against her husband Gilbert Osmond's wishes to witness the death of her beloved cousin Ralph, we don't know if she'll return to her husband in Rome or shape some other future for herself. Banville talks about continuing her story and his debt to James.
When Tate Modern opened its new extension last year, for the first time the gallery had purpose built spaces for performance art, and as Fierce, the live art festival in Birmingham prepares to open, Front Row invited Aaron Wright, the festival's artistic director and Dr Claire MacDonald, co-founder of the arts journal Performance Research to discuss the current state of the performance art landscape.
Michael Fassbender, whose previous films include Hunger, 12 Years a Slave and Steve Jobs, discusses his role as Harry Hole in the film adaptation of Jo Nesbo's thriller The Snowman, in which he plays a detective on the hunt for a serial killer in Norway whose killing spree starts with the first snowfall.
Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.
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George Michael
Duration: 05:59
John Banville
Duration: 08:01
Performance Art
Duration: 07:02
Michael Fassbender
Duration: 06:42
Freedom - George Michael
George Michael
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Freedom is on Channel 4 on
Mon 16 Oct at 9 pm
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John Banville
John Banville's new book Mrs Osmond is available nowPerformance Art
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Role Contributor Interviewed Guest Kate Mossman Interviewed Guest John Banville Interviewed Guest Aaron Wright Interviewed Guest Claire MacDonald Interviewed Guest Michael Fassbender Presenter Stig Abell Producer Rebecca Armstrong Broadcast
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