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Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 7:24 p.m.

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Two adaptations of Rhinoceros by Eug\\xe8ne Ionesco open this month, one in Belfast and a Welsh language adaptation in Cardiff. The adaptors Patrick J O\\u2019Reilly and Manon Steffan Ros both join Kathy Clugston to discuss how this 1950s play about the rise of Fascism speaks to audiences now.

Singer Cara Dillon is known globally for her interpretations of traditional Irish songs. As she performs at the Belfast International Arts Festival, she explains why she\\u2019s taking a new direction with her upcoming album, the first time she\\u2019s released an album of original songs.

In the first of Front Row\\u2019s interviews with the authors shortlisted for this year\\u2019s Booker Prize, Paul Lynch talks about Prophet Song, his dystopian novel which imagines a future in which Ireland is in the grips of an oppressive regime.

And as Glasgow Museums say that they are unable to locate a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, arts correspondent Jan Patience explains that it may not be the only major work of art that\\u2019s gone missing.

Presenter: Kathy Clugston\\nProducer: Olivia Skinner

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