Tom Rob Smith, Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors, Kevin Barry
Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Tom Rob Smith on his TV thriller London Spy and a look at the Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors exhibition.
Tom Rob Smith, the first crime writer to make it on to the Booker longlist with Child 44, discusses London Spy, his new TV thriller in which a young romantic, played by Ben Whishaw, is drawn through love into the dangerous world of espionage.
Irish writer Kevin Barry talks about his new novel Beatlebone, in which a crisis-ridden John Lennon tries to get to the island he owned in real life in Clew Bay, Co Mayo, in 1978.
Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 is the first major exhibition of work by women artists to be mounted by the National Galleries of Scotland. Art critic Jan Patience reviews.
As part of the BBC On Stage season, Front Row goes backstage and eavesdrops on what's going on shortly before a show begins. Tonight Neve McIntosh, who plays Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible at the Bristol Old Vic, shares the ritual of her preparation in the last half-hour before curtain-up.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Tom Rob Smith
Duration: 08:59
Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors
Duration: 04:54
Kevin Barry
Duration: 08:51
Backstage with Neve McIntosh
Duration: 04:40
London Spy
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London Spy, written by Tom Rob Smith, begins on BBC Two on Monday 9 November at 9pm
Modern Scottish Women
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Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 is at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh until 26 June 2016.
Images: Left: Dorothy Johnstone - Anne Finlay, 1920. Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections: Purchased with the assistance of the National Fund for Acquisitions 1983.
Right - Norah Neilson Gray, Mother and Child, 1920s. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh: Purchased with funds from the Cecil and Mary Gibson Bequest 2015
Kevin Barry
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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry is available in hardback and ebook now.
Photo © Conor O'Mahony
On Stage
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As part of the BBC On Stage season, Front Row goes backstage and eavesdrops on what's going on shortly before a show begins. Tonight Neve McIntosh, who plays Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible at the Bristol Old Vic.
The Crucible is at the Bristol Old Vic until 7 November 2015.
Image: Neve McIntoshand Dean Lennox Kelly. Photo by Geraint Lewis
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Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Tom Rob Smith Interviewed Guest Kevin Barry Interviewed Guest Jan Patience Interviewed Guest Neve McIntosh Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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