Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin, Hugh Laurie on Avenue 5, Gabrielle Aplin
Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin; Hugh Laurie on Armando Iannucci's TV drama Avenue 5; Kerry Hudson on risk; singer Gabrielle Aplin
Michael Palin remembers his friend and fellow Python, Terry Jones - writer, director, actor and historian - whose death at the age of 77 was announced today.
Hugh Laurie discusses his new role in Armando Iannucci鈥檚 new TV comedy drama Avenue 5, which is set on a galactic cruise liner. When a mishap turns the eight-week pleasure jaunt among the stars into a voyage lasting three-and-a-half years it鈥檚 not just the spacecraft that begins to breakdown 鈥� it鈥檚 civilisation itself. And masks begin to slip. Laurie stars as the urbane, silver-haired Ryan Clark, the confidence inspiring Captain. But Clark is not what he seems.
Mental health, the pressures of social media and a feeling of freedom all feature in Gabrielle Aplin鈥檚 upbeat pop album Dear Happy. The singer-songwriter talks to Samira about making the album on her own record label and performs live in the studio.
As Front Row continues to explore risk in the arts, author Kerry Hudson speaks about the emotional risk involved in writing her memoir Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain鈥檚 Poorest Towns.
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald
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Kerry Hudson on Lowborn
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Terrry Jones remembered by Michael Palin
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Main image above: Terry Jones
Image credit: Dale Cherry/Mirrorpix/Getty Images
Image to the left Terry Jones (far right) and the rest of the Monty Python crew with聽 Eddie Izzard
Hugh Laurie on Avenue 5
Avenue 5 can be watched, streamed or downloaded from Sky One from 22 January 2020.
Image: Hugh Laurie (centre), as Ryan Clark, Andy Buckley as Frank Kelly, and Rebecca Front聽as Karen Kelly in Avenue 5
Image credit: HBO (c)2020 Home Box office, Inc
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Gabrielle Aplin
Gabrielle Aplin's album, is available now.
The UK and Ireland log of Gabrielle Aplin's European tour starts at Glasgow on 04 March 2020, and goes on to visit Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, Leeds, Cardiff, Nottingham, Brighton, London and ends in Bristol on 18 March 2020.
Image: Gabrielle Aplin
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