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EPISODE · Sep 26, 2014 · 28 MIN

Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Eimear McBride, Roy Williams, New Prince Albums

from Front Row: Archive 2014 · host BBC Radio 4

A new exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace will be his biggest UK show to date, which Craig Clunas reviews with Kirsty Lang. Eimear McBride, who won the Bailey's Women's Prize for her debut novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, and theatre director Annie Ryan discuss adapting McBride's experimental and challenging book for the stage. Playwright Roy Williams talks about putting Sophocles's Greek tragedy Antigone in a contemporary setting, and as Prince releases two new albums on the same day, Matt Thorne asseses whether the Minneapolis singer-songwriter still has the power to thrill and surprise.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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