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The royals on TV, Luke Evans, Stabat Mater at the Sistine Chapel

The royals on TV, Luke Evans on The Alienist, and James MacMillan and Harry Christophers discuss their live stream of Stabat Mater from the Sistine Chapel.

Following last night's broadcast of The Queen's Green Planet on ITV, which features the Queen in intimate conversation with Sir David Attenborough, we talk to the documentary's director Jane Treays about working with the Queen and look back over the history of royal TV projects with critic Chris Dunkley.

Luke Evans has featured in many Hollywood films including The Girl on the Train, Fast & Furious, the Hobbit franchise and last year as Gaston in Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. The Welsh actor discusses his new Netflix series The Alienist, in which he plays a newspaper illustrator who teams up with a criminal psychologist to catch a serial killer in 1890s New York.

Composer Sir James MacMillan's choral work Stabat Mater will make history on 22 April, when it becomes the first work to be video-streamed live from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. It will be performed by The Sixteen and Britten Sinfonia under conductor Harry Christophers. MacMillan and Christophers discuss the challenges of performing in this revered venue.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • The royals on TV

    Duration: 08:45

  • Luke Evans

    Duration: 08:57

  • Stabat Mater at the Sistine Chapel

    Duration: 08:37

  • Kendrick Lamar

    Duration: 01:03

The royals on TV

The royals on TV

The Queen's Green Planet can be downloaded from the听ITV hub.

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Main image above: Her Majesty the Queen is joined by Sir David Attenborough in the Buckingham Palace Gardens.

Image to the left: Her Majesty The Queen in the gardens of Buckingham Palace

Images credit: ITV

Luke Evans

The 10-part series of The Alienist听is available from Netflix from 19 April 2018.

Image: (from Left) Dakota Fanning, Daniel Bruhl and Luke Evans in The Alienist.

Stabat Mater at the Sistine Chapel

Stabat Mater at the Sistine Chapel

perform Stabat Mater composed by Sir James MacMillan, streamed live听on the Classic FM website听from The Sistine Chapel in The Vatican, Rome on 22 April 2018.

Their tour, called The Choral Pilgrimage starts from Winchester on 20 April 2018, and visits Greenwich, Hereford, Llandaff, Truro, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, Carlisle, Lancaster, Hull, York, Wells, Tewkesbury, St James in London,听Northampton, Croydon, Coventry, Southwell, Liverpool, Blackburn,听Cambridge, Peterborough, Sheffield, Durham, Edinburgh, and finishes at King's Place in London听on 09 November 2018.

Image: The Sixteen with composer Sir James MacMillan (centre left) and conductor Harry Christophers (centre right).

Image credit: Philippa Gedge

Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar
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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Jane Treays
Interviewed Guest Luke Evans
Interviewed Guest James MacMillan
Interviewed Guest Harry Christophers
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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  • Tue 17 Apr 2018 19:15

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