Podcasts Culture Front Row Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

Published: May 12, 2022, 7:20 p.m.

On today's Front Row review, we discuss directors taking a new look at much loved works: Daniel Fish\u2019s Broadway production of Oklahoma!, now at the Young Vic in London, explores the darker aspects of the musical. Conversations with Friends, the debut novel by bestselling author Sally Rooney, has been adapted for television, following the lockdown success of Normal People. Journalist Tara Joshi and Matt Wolf, London theatre critic of the International New York Times, review them both.

The Bob Dylan Centre, home to the singer's immense archive, opened this week. Professor Sean Latham, Director of the Institute\xa0for Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa, discusses its cultural significance.

And as the Florence Nightingale Museum reopens after two years, its director David Green joins Samira to consider the legacy of the mother of modern nursing.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed\nProducer: Harry Parker

Image: Members of the cast of Rodgers & Hammerstein\u2019s Oklahoma at The Young Vic Theatre, London\n(Rebekah Hinds as Gertie Cummings, James Davis as Will Parker and Anoushka Lucas as Laurey Williams)\nPhotographer credit: Marc Brenner