Podcasts Culture Front Row Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 7:26 p.m.

Cush Jumbo\u2019s long-awaited performance as Hamlet and debbie tucker green\u2019s film ear for eye come under the critical gaze of Ekow Eshun, Vanessa Kisuule and Sarah Crompton.

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. He joins Front Row to discuss his work and how he feels about winning.

The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage on his fresh and contemporary new translation of the classic poem The Owl and the Nightingale.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe\nProducer: Sarah Johnson

Photo Credit: Helen Murray