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02/06/2018 GMT
Host Mary Beard and her guests David Benedict, Dreda Say Mitchell and Paul Morley enter the wonderful world of musical theatre.
Host Mary Beard and her guests David Benedict, Dreda Say Mitchell and Paul Morley enter the wonderful world of musical theatre and ask whether it can cover issues such as youth violence and sexual politics . As a self-confessed sceptic Mary looks at some genre-busting shows - Tina: The Musical a commentary on race and the music industry and A Clockwork Orange set to the author's own score and asks whether it is now cool to like musicals.
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