Vikingur Olafsson, David Greig, El Presidente, Inclusive publishing

Published: June 5, 2020, 7:07 p.m.

Icelandic pianist V\xedkingur \xd3lafsson continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, as Front Row\u2019s Lockdown Artist in Residence. Tonight V\xedkingur plays his own transcription of J.S Bach\u2019s cantata Widerstehe doch der S\xfcnde, BWV 54.

David Greig talks about his new play Adventures With The Painted People - a first century romcom between a Pict and a Roman - which was to have opened Pitlochry Festival Theatre\u2019s summer season, and has now been adapted for Radio 3, as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine project.

For our Friday review, we watch El Presidente- a new Amazon Prime comedy drama about the FIFA corruption scandal, scripted by Birdman writer Armando B\xf3. And Lily King\u2019s novel Writers and Lovers comes with accolades from Elizabeth Strout and Tessa Hadley. What will critics Carl Anka and Alex Clark make of its consideration of grief, love, writing... and waitressing?

Following the death of George Floyd there\u2019s been a dramatic increase in sales of books which help explain structural racism. Knights Of - a small publisher specialising in titles tackling prejudice - was facing financial crisis due to the Coronavirus, but now a crowdfunding appeal to help publishers like them has smashed its \xa3100 000 target. Knights Of\u2019s co-founder, Aimee Felone, on publishing during the pandemic and the Inclusive Indies fundraising campaign.

Presenter: John Wilson\nProducer: Timothy Prosser