\u201cLock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind,\u201d wrote Virginia Woolf in her 1929 essay A Room of One\u2019s Own. On the eve of Radio 4\u2019s adaptation of Woolf\u2019s totemic study in the treatment of women across the generations we talk to Indira Varma who stars.
The DJ Mr Switch, aka Anthony Culverwell, discusses Gabriel Prokofiev\u2019s classical composition, Concerto for Turntables, released this week. Mr Switch performed it at the BBC Proms in 2011 to great acclaim, and at home at his turntables the DJ explains and demonstrates the art of turntablism.
Icelandic pianist V\xedkingur \xd3lafsson continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, as Front Row\u2019s Lockdown Artist in Residence. Tonight V\xedkingur plays Chopin\u2019s Prelude in B Minor, a piece very special to the composer.
For Front Row's Friday review, Bong Joon Ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer never had a full cinematic release in this country but won critical acclaim. Now Netflix have produced a new series based on the story. And The Lockdown Plays is a new podcast for charity involving some of the country's top actors and playwrights such as Caryl Churchill and Clint Dyer. Critics Naima Khan and Ryan Gilbey give their verdicts on both.
Tomorrow will be Bristol Old Vic\u2019s 254th birthday. Usually anyone living in Bristol can perform on the stage of the oldest theatre in the country on its birthday. This, sadly, has had to now move online. Tom Morris talks about the Bristol Arts Channel, which opens tonight with the streaming of the Bristol Old Vic production of Messiah. The channel involves venues all over the city offering the audience a night out in Bristol.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed\nProducer: Julian May