Hanya Yanagihara, No Escape, Site-specific theatre, Boy Meets Girl

Arts news, including Hanya Yanagihara discussing her novel A Little Life and Mark Eccleston reviewing the film No Escape. Plus Samira Ahmed takes a tour of site-specific theatre.

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Hanya Yanagihara discusses her new novel A Little Life, which is on the Man-Booker Prize longlist. An exploration of friendship, the lifelong effects of abuse and the limits of human endurance.

Mark Eccleston reviews the American action film No Escape staring Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan.

The challenges of putting on site-specific theatre, featuring new play Absent at Shoreditch Town Hall, which has been transformed into a hotel, and the creators of cult hit You Me Bum Bum train.

Boy Meets Girl is the UK's first transgender sitcom set to air on BBC2 next week. Writer and comedian Natalie Haynes reviews.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Anna Bailey.

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Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life
Duration: 09:56
Site-specific theatre
Duration: 08:09

Hanya Yanagihara
Duration: 10:05
No Escape
Duration: 04:31
Site-specific theatre
Duration: 08:52
Boy Meets Girl
Duration: 04:17

Yanagihara Hanya

A Little Life by Yanagihara Hanya is available in hardback and ebook now.

Main image: © Jenny Westerhoff.

Left: © Sam Levy.

No Escape

No Escape is in cinemas from Friday 4 September, certificate 15.

Well

Well is at the Sanofi Factory in Dagenham until Sunday 6 September.

Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Absent

Absent is at Shoreditch Town Hall, in London until the 25 October 2015.

Photo: Jim Stephenson

You Me Bum Bum Train

You Me Bum Bum Train is at a secret location in London from September to October, 2015.

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl begins on BBC 2 on Thursday 3September at 9pm.

Role	Contributor
Presenter	Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest	Hanya Yanagihara
Interviewed Guest	Mark Eccleston
Interviewed Guest	Natalie Haynes
Producer	Anna Bailey

Fri 28 Aug 201519:15
BBC Radio 4

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