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Philippa Gregory, Regina Spektor, TV's Eden and Rebecca Root's Queer Icon

EPISODE · Aug 8, 2017 · 29 MIN

Philippa Gregory, Regina Spektor, TV's Eden and Rebecca Root's Queer Icon

from Front Row · host BBC Radio 4

Philippa Gregory talks about her new novel The Last Tudor - the 15th book in her Tudor/Plantagenet series in as many years. In the Last Tudor, Gregory tells the stories of the Grey sisters, starting with Lady Jane Grey who was queen of England for just nine days. The classically-trained singer-songwriter Regina Spektor defies categorisation but wins admiration and a loyal following for her distinctive pop drawing on influences from Boris Pasternak to the Beatles. She joins Kirsty in the studio to perform live from her current album, Remember Us To Life.For Front Row's Queer Icons series, the actor Rebecca Root talks about the Mary Oliver poem Wild Geese which helped her through her transition.This week Channel 4 airs the reality TV series Eden: Paradise Lost - the reality show set on a Scottish island which was cancelled after just four episodes last year. Elizabeth Day gives her verdict.Presenter Kirsty Lang Producer Dymphna Flynn.

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