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Podcast: Front Row
Episode: Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl
Description: Mina Anwar and Les Dennis discuss their new production of Spring and Port Wine at the Bolton Octagon. They explain why the 1960s classic play about a family in Bolton, and tensions between the generations, still has resonance today.
Writer Tania Branigan talks about her new book Red Memory. Based on her research as a journalist in China, it tells the story of the Cultural Revolution through the memories of individuals including a composer, an artist and a man who denounced his own mother.It’s nearly 40 years since Barbra Streisand’s film Yentl was released. Based on a...