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The Glass Menagerie, Conrad Shawcross, Sitcoms at 60

Samira Ahmed talks to artist Conrad Shawcross and reviews an Edinburgh Festival production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Plus 60 years of the British sitcom.

As the BBC celebrates 60 years of the British TV sitcom, Samira Ahmed is joined by Citizen Khan creator and star Adil Ray, comedy producer and director Paul Jackson and the BFI's TV consultant Dick Fiddy.

Joyce McMillan reviews an Edinburgh Festival production of Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany and starring Cherry Jones.

The artist Conrad Shawcross on building a vast 50 metre-tall, 20 metre-wide 'architectural intervention' beside a busy main road on the Greenwich Peninsular, encasing a new low-carbon Energy Centre.

And this week Front Row meets some of the Artists in Residence around the UK who are working in unusual places, starting in Lincoln Cathedral with Toni Watts, a manuscript illuminator.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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Mon 8 Aug 201619:15
BBC Radio 4

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Chapters

  • Sitcoms at 60

    Duration: 11:52

  • The Glass Menagerie reviewed by Joyce Mcmillan

    Duration: 03:47

  • Conrad Shawcross

    Duration: 07:04

  • Artists in Residence - Lincoln Cathedral

    Duration: 04:39

Sitcoms at 60

Sitcoms at 60
Front Row discusses the BBC Faces of Comedy season with studio guests including actor Adil Ray. BBC Faces of Comedy is showing at Compton Verney near Stratford-upon-Avon until 2 October.

Conrad Shawcross

Conrad Shawcross

Conrad Shawcross: The Optic Cloak – an architectural intervention for the Greenwich Peninsula launches on 21 September. 

Image credit: Nina Manandhar

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie directed by John Tiffany runs at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh until 21 August.

Artists in Residence - Lincoln Cathedral

Artists in Residence - Lincoln Cathedral
Artist in Residence Toni Watts and Reverend Canon Dr Mark Hocknull at Lincoln Cathedral 

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PresenterSamira Ahmed
ProducerTimothy Prosser
Interviewed GuestAdil Ray
Interviewed GuestPaul Jackson
Interviewed GuestDick Fiddy
Interviewed GuestJoyce McMillan
Interviewed GuestConrad Shawcross
ActorToni Watts

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    BBC Radio 4

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