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Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage

Bronski Beats' Age of Consent; Staging the horror genre; Booker shortlisted writer Percival Everett; and, Fleur Adcock.

Forty years ago Bronski Beat released Age of Consent, a record so loud and proud that it become an era-defining moment of gay liberation. We look back at the record's music, legacy and politics with novelist Matt Cain and Laurie Belgrave, who has produced the new 'The Age of Consent 40' concert at the Southbank Centre. Samira talks to Percival Everett about his Booker-shortlisted James, a potent retelling of Mark Twain鈥檚 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which offers a new voice to the enslaved character Jim. And, we look at how the horror genre has developed on the stage with Jessica Andrews who has adapted Saint Maud for Live Theatre in Newcastle and Matthew Dunster who directed 2:22 A Ghost Story and the recent West End production of The Pillowman.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Ruth Watts

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  • Mon 14 Oct 2024 19:15

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