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What happens when artistic risk fails?
Theatre critic Michael Billington talks about the times when artistic risks fail to pay off. Failure in the arts can be a taboo subject, and Doctor Leila Jancovich from Leeds University has been exploring histories of failure and why it seems the arts find it difficult to learn from their mistakes.
Part of Front Row’s Risk season investigating personal, financial, reputational and physical risk in all the arts.
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