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Stardust, The world's oldest painting, Jenni Fagan, Arts Students

Mark Billingham reviews David Bowie film Stardust; Jenni Fagan on her latest book, Luckenbooth; and arts undergraduates on the impact of the pandemic.

Stardust is the new film about David Bowie鈥檚 promotional tour of the United States in 1971 during which he began to develop the concept of Ziggy Stardust. Bowie is played by musician and actor Johnny Flynn and the film has already attracted attention as they were unable to secure the rights to Bowie鈥檚 songs. Writer and Bowie fan Mark Billingham reviews.

A vivid 45,500 year old painting of a warty pig, discovered on a cave wall in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the oldest representational art in the world. What does the striking work tell us about the value of art to the civilisation that created it. With archeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes.

Novelist Jenni Fagan talks about her latest book, Luckenbooth. It opens as the devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a man who lives a dual life. But the real reason she's there is to bear him and his barren wife a child, the consequences of which curse the tenement building that is their home for a hundred years.

How are students whose arts subjects at university or college require them to undertake in-person tuition adapting to the third lockdown? Callum Bruce, a second year musical theatre student at Trinity Laban in London, and Mary Johnson, third year percussion student at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, discuss how the pandemic has affected their studies.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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World's oldest animal cave painting

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Jenni Fagan

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Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan is published on 14th January by William Heinemann

Stardust

Stardust is available to stream from 15th January 2021
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