Playing Linda Loman, Informer, Geology-inspired art, Ciaran Hodgers

Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 7:40 p.m.

Willy Loman is very much the heart and soul of Arthur Miller\u2019s Pulitzer-prizewinning play, Death of a Salesman. However as a new production opens at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, two actors Maureen Beattie and Marion Bailey - who have played the role of Linda Loman- join Stig to discuss what they found when they played the salesman\u2019s wife.

Crime novelist AA Dhand reviews \u2018Informer\u2019 a new criminal intelligence thriller set in East London about a police informant programme targeting radicalised youth. \u2018Informer\u2019 stars Paddy Considine and newcomer Nabhaan Rizwan.

Geology and technology come together in two new exhibitions. The work of artist Dan Holdsworth is the focus of Continuous Topography at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art in Sunderland, while at York Art Gallery, there\u2019s a group show, Strata-Rock-Dust-Stars. Cherie Frederico, editor of Aesthetica magazine and Dan Holdsworth join Stig to discuss why the planet has become a new frontier for artists working with digital technology.

Liverpool-based Irish poet Ciar\xe1n Hodgers is about to take part in the annual Liverpool Irish Festival, which coincides with the publication of Cosmocartography, his first full collection of poetry. The poet discusses his personal experience of migration, which features in his collection, and which is also a theme in this year\u2019s festival.

Presenter: Stig Abell\nProducer: Ekene Akalawu