External Site: Front Row’s Cultural Exchange[info]
A feature within BBC Radio 4’s Front Row arts review series. 75 leading creative minds choose their favourite work. Speakers include art critic and historian Brian Sewell (Velasquez’s painting Christ Contemplated by the Christian Soul, National Gallery, London), Bernardo Bertolucci (Fellini’s film, LA DOLCE VITA , historian Mary Beard (the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons on display at the Vatican Museum in Rome), and musician Nigel Kennedy (the song Black and Blue, a jazz standard written by Fats Waller). The interviews are available indefinitely as podcasts.