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EPISODE · Dec 12, 2014 · 28 MIN

Paul McCartney, The Merchant of Venice, Frames at the National Gallery

from Front Row: Archive 2014 · host BBC Radio 4

Sir Paul McCartney tells John Wilson about creating a song for the video game Destiny and missing the days of vinyl.Peter Schade, Head of Framing at the National Gallery, talks about the gallery's first ever campaign to raise money to buy a frame. It's one he's found for Titian's An Allegory of Prudence.Ian McDiarmid stars as Shylock in the Almeida Theatre's new production of The Merchant of Venice. He and director Rupert Goold talk about setting the play in the bright lights of Las Vegas.And amid the controversy over the singing of Delilah as a rugby anthem John talks to Barry Mason, the man who wrote the song.

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