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The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture

The team behind The Play That Goes Wrong franchise on making comedy out of errors, Slow Painting at Leeds Art Gallery, and reviving the high street with culture.

The Mischief Theatre team – Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields have had an amazing year with their Play That Goes Wrong theatre franchise – three productions on at the West End, one touring the UK, and now a new six-part television series on BBC One called The Goes Wrong Show. They join Front Row to discuss how things have gone right since they started going wrong.

Slow Art Days, where viewers are encouraged to spend more time looking at artworks, have been gaining popularity in museums and galleries around the world. Now, there’s an exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery called Slow Painting. Exhibition organiser Gilly Fox discusses the show that explores the many aspects of what slowness might mean in relation to contemporary painting.

As Historic England prepares to fund regeneration initiatives in 69 towns around the country, Catherine Dewar, their North West Regional Director, and David Jenkins, Managing Director of The Old Courts Arts Centre in Wigan, discuss Historic England’s plans to revive the British high street.

Presenter: Katie Popperwell
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

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The Goes Wrong Show

The Goes Wrong Show
The Mischief Theatre Company launch a new six part BBC TV series, 'The Goes Wrong Show', the first episode airs tonight.

Photo credits this and main image - Mischief Screen Limited 2019/Ben Blackall


Slow Painting at Leeds Art Gallery

Slow Painting at Leeds Art Gallery

The exhibition: Slow Painting, is on at Leeds Art Gallery until 12th January 2020. It then tours to, The Levinsky Gallery in Plymouth, the Andrew Brownsword Gallery in Bath and Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and Thurso Art Gallery in Scotland.

Image Credit Gareth Cadwallader 'Bath'
Other 'Slow Art' activities in the UK include 'And Breathe' at the Manchester Art Gallery until 19th January and The National Gallery are inviting un-rushed appreciation of just one work –Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks, until 26th January.

Heritage Action Zones

Heritage Action Zones
Reviving the high street with culture. 
Royal Court Theatre pictured. Photo credit: Zak Bretherton (The Old Courts).

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  • Mon 23 Dec 201919:15

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