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Jul 15
42m 20s

Football and Art - united in a new work ...

Bbc Radio 4
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Former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer on creating a new work for the Manchester International Festival.

As four new twenty minute operas are premiered at the Buxton International Festival, Helen Goodman, artistic manager at the festival, and Hannah Ellis Ryan, artistic director of theatre company, HER Productions, discuss how short plays and operas can lead the way for change.

Jo Callaghan has an AI detective at the centre of her Kat and Lock crime fiction series. Ajay Chowdhury uses digital technology in his crime fiction. They discuss the impact developments in the tech world are having on their genre.

Presented by Nick Ahad Produced by Ekene Akalawu

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