Podcasts Culture Front Row The Chair reviewed, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Timespan shortlisted for Museum of the Year, Punchdrunk

The Chair reviewed, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Timespan shortlisted for Museum of the Year, Punchdrunk

Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 6:56 p.m.

The recent Netflix comedy drama, The Chair, centres on an English professor, played by Sandra Oh who has just been appointed the first female chair of the department and has big dreams about modernising it. Hanna Flint joins us to review

We hear live from the winner of the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction 2021, announced this evening: Susanna Clarke for her novel Piranesi. This year\u2019s chair of judges is Bernardine Evaristo

Immersive theatre group Punchdrunk are well known for their imaginative use of unusual locations. They have just announced that they will be establishing a permanent location for future productions \u2013 could this mean they\u2019re going mainstream and spell the end of their unorthodox experimentation? We speak with Felix Barratt, Artistic Director and Maxine Doyle, choreographer

It\u2019s time for Front Row\u2019s fifth and final preview of the Art Fund Museum Of The Year nominees. The winner will receive \xa3100,000 and the museums have been spread around the UK. Today\u2019s venue is Timespan in the north eastern Scottish Highlands in Helmsdale, a village of just 800 people. We talk to Sadie Young, the only fulltime member of staff.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang\nProducer: Sarah Johnson

Main image above: Sandra Oh in Netflix's The Chair series\nImage credit: Eliza Morse/Netflix 2021