Lisette Oropesa, Richard Flanagan, Kate MccGwire
Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan, opera singer Lisette Oropesa and feathers sculpture artist Kate MccGwire.
As she makes her debut at the Royal Opera House in Lucia di Lammermoor, Lisette Oropesa talks about combining a career as one of the world's top sopranos with a passion for running marathons.
Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He talks to Shahidha Bari about his follow-up novel, First Person, based on his own experience of ghost-writing a notorious criminal's memoir when he was a penniless and unknown author.
Kate MccGwire makes elaborate sculptures from the feathers of crows and doves to jays and magpies. Shahidha visits the artist in her studio - a Dutch barge - where she creates her works surrounded by Thames wildlife.
Presenter Shahidha Bari
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Lisette Oropesa
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Richard Flanagan
Lisette Oropesa
Main image: Lisette Oropesa
Photo credit: Hiroyuki Ito, Getty Images
Kate MccGwire
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Shahidha Bari |
| Interviewed Guest | Lisette Oropesa |
| Interviewed Guest | Richard Flanagan |
| Interviewed Guest | Kate MccGwire |
| Producer | Jerome Weatherald |
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- Tue 31 Oct 2017 19:15BBC Radio 4
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