Podcasts Culture Front Row The swimming pool in art, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Twelfth Night, Poet Jean Sprackland

The swimming pool in art, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Twelfth Night, Poet Jean Sprackland

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 6:59 p.m.

An entire disused swimming pool has been built on the ground floor of the Whitechapel Gallery in London for the new exhibition from the Scandinavian duo Elmgreen & Dragset. The artists discuss how they have been inspired by the work of David Hockney and Ed Ruscha. Then film critic Mark Eccleston art critic Jacky Klein and artist and former Canadian national competitive swimmer Leanne Shapton reflect on the swimming pool in the arts.

Kwame Kwei-Armah opens his first season as the Artistic Director of London\u2019s Young Vic with a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night. This reworking of Shakespeare\u2019s comedy, which includes soul music and show tunes from songwriter Shaina Taub, has already impressed audiences in New York. Theatre critic Sam Marlowe gives her verdict.

Green Noise is the title of poet Jean Sprackland\u2019s new collection which encapsulates her concerns with the natural world on which she focuses minutely, as well as the sounds of the street, the wind, and resonating history. She reads her work and talks about writing poems that listen to the green noise of life.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed\nProducer: Edwina Pitman