Miss Fortune, Jerry White, Lloyd Newson, Museum Narration

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Samira Ahmed is joined by Helen Wallace to review the UK premiere of composer Judith Weir's new opera, 'Miss Fortune', an updating of an old Sicilian folk tale. The opera is directed by the Chinese film and theatre director Chen Shi-Zeng, whose last production at the Royal Opera House was Damon Albarn's 'Monkey: Journey to the West'. Historian Jerry White talks about his latest chronicle of London, this time the 18th century - a period of huge growth and urban change, when the streets of London began to take on the shape recognisable today. Physical theatre director Lloyd Newson on choreographing dance to narrate his vision of why state multi-culturalism is confusing the liberal left. And James Cuno and Mark Jones discuss the merits and pitfalls of narrating museum exhibits in an explanatory, encyclopaedic arrangement.