Sir Tom Stoppard, Ryan Bancroft, Museum of The Year, Nick Laird
Sir Tom Stoppard on Leopoldstadt, Proms conductor Ryan Bancroft, Museum of the Year - Derry/Londonderry CCA, novelist Nick Laird on grief
Sir Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning play Leopoldstadt closed because of Covid in March 2020. Tomorrow it returns to the same stage and the same cast will tell again the story a Jewish family, in Vienna in the first half of the 20 century. They fled the pogroms in the East and later suffered terribly under Nazi rule. The plot has parallels with Stoppard's own family - all four of Stoppard's grandparents perished in concentration camps. He talks about returning to the theatre, if he has revised the play in the interregnum, and if he is tempted to revisit his earlier plays.
We hear from the first of the five museums and galleries shortlisted for the prestigious 拢100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021. This year鈥檚 prize will reflect the resilience and imagination of museums during the pandemic, and today we hear from Catherine Hemelryk from the Centre of Contemporary Art in Derry-Londonderry.
Ryan Bancroft has just finished his first year as the Principal Conductor for 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales, and this week he makes two appearances at the 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms. He tells us how he became a conductor, his excitement for music by Welsh composers and his favourite aspects of American music.
Novelist Nick Laird talks to us about writing grief as he creates an elegy for his father
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