Podcasts Culture Front Row: Archive 2014 Folio Prize winner, Cezanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck

Folio Prize winner, Cezanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck

Published: March 10, 2014, 8:02 p.m.

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With John Wilson. We announce the winner of the inaugural Folio Prize and speak to her/him live from the ceremony in London. The \\xa340,000 prize celebrates the best English-language fiction from around the world, regardless of form, genre, or the author's country of origin.

C\\xe9zanne and the Modern is a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, featuring the collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman. They began collecting in 1945 with a work by Jacques Lipchitz and it now includes a matchless group of paintings and watercolours by Paul C\\xe9zanne, as well as paintings and sculptures by artists including Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and Edgar Degas. Curator John Whitely talks to John Wilson about the collection.

John also talks to guitar hero Jeff Beck about a 50 year career that has seen him play with the likes of The Yardbirds, David Bowie, Eric Clapton and Morrissey.

And as a new teen movie the GBF (Gay Best Friend) is about to open, writer Damian Barr looks at the appeal of the gay best friend in film.

Producer Dymphna Flynn.

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