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A Tale Of Two Theatres

4 Extra Debut. Co-founder of London’s Arcola Theatre, Mehmet Ergen goes to Istanbul to check what’s at stake for Turkish theatre. From 2014.

Mehmet Ergen is best known to UK theatre audiences as the co-founder of London's Arcola Theatre.

But his pioneering work in Hackney is only half the story.

We follow him to his Turkish homeland, post Gezi Park and post Arab Spring, caught between the Syrian conflict and EU aspirations; an emerging economy where freedom of speech is still in jeopardy.

Producer: Kirsty McQuire

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2014.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 15 Oct 202102:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Thu 3 Apr 201411:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 16 May 201423:27
    BBC Radio 4
  • Thu 14 Oct 202114:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 15 Oct 202102:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra