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Julia Hart on her film I'm Your Woman, Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave

Julia Hart on writing and directing I'm Your Woman, Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave; the history of photography told through images of plants

Writer and director Julia Hart joins Samira to talk about I'm Your Woman, a gritty crime drama set in the 1970s. Rachel Brosnahan (Marvellous Mrs Maisel) stars as a woman forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.

Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera Owen Wingrave was written for television and first appeared on BBC Two in 1971. Grange Park Opera have produced a new filmed version as part of their ‘Interim Season’, and director Stephen Medcalf joins us in the studio to explain how to film a socially-distanced opera.

Dulwich Picture gallery is staging its first ever photography exhibition, Unearthed, which tells the story of photography through images of plants and botany. The show’s curator Alexander Moore talks about the work of the early pioneers in the 1840s, including the first known Victorian images by Fox Talbot, as well as the eroticisim of Robert Mapplethorpe's pictures and today’s leading innovators

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Dymphna Flynn
Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant

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28 minutes

Julia Hart

I'm Your Woman (cert 15) is in selected cinemas and streams on Amazon Prime Video from 11 Dec 

Main image: Rachel Brosnahan and Arinzé Kene
Photo credit: Amazon Prime Video

Unearthed

Unearthed: Photography's Rootsis at the Dulwich Picture Gallery until
9 May 2021

Owen Wingrave

Owen Wingrave streams on Grange Park Opera website until 31 Dec

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  • Tue 8 Dec 202019:15

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