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Brokeback Mountain on stage, Venice architecture biennale, author Tan Twan Eng

Brokeback Mountain on stage: musician and librettist Dan Gillespie Sells on the adaption from Annie Proulx鈥檚 story. Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng on his novel The House Of Doors.

Brokeback Mountain on stage: musician and librettist Dan Gillespie Sells discusses writing the songs for a new stage production of Brokeback Mountain, adapted from Annie Proulx鈥檚 short story about the romance between two men working as sheep herders in 1960s Wyoming.

Venice Architecture Biennale: the exhibition at the British Pavilion this year draws on traditions practised by different diaspora communities in the UK - such as Jamaicans playing dominoes and Cypriots cooking outside - and explores how they occupy space, so this can be included in planning the built environment. Two of the curators, Meneesha Kellay and Joseph Henry, discuss how architecture goes beyond buildings and economic structures.

Plus art generates art in Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng鈥檚 new book The House of Doors, inspired in part by the life of William Somerset Maugham and the stories he wrote drawing on his travels in Malaysia.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Julian May

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  • Mon 15 May 2023 19:15

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