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STILL PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES. Sir Norman Rosenthal celebrated his 80th birthday on November 8th 2024. ​A curator and art historian, he was Exhibitions Officer at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and for many years Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy in London. Recently he curated Georg Baselitz: The Last Decade at the Sabancı Museum in Istanbul. His Roberto Matta 1911-2002 opened at Ca' Pesaro, Venice on October 25th 2024, and he is curating David Hockney's April 2025 exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. "Art is a complex story, and one has to pick out the great artists who have their own vision of the world." "I always liked to do things with other people." "I'm very proud to be having a dialogue with David Hockney"

In this episode of Talking History, we're remembering Abba's Eurovision win 50 years ago and finding out how the song Waterloo helped to propel them to global superstardom. Joining Patrick Geoghegan are: Carl Magnus Palm, historian and author of ‘Abba On Record', Ingmarie Halling, Creative Director and Curator at ABBA The Museum, Hedley Swain, CEO of Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust, on the Abba exhibition at Brighton Museum, and Dr. Dónal Mulligan, lecturer and researcher at the DCU School of Communication.

Alison Moloney and Martin Pel discuss the red dress, possibly by Schiaparelli, which opened the Lee Miller show at Brighton Museum. Lee Miller was a photographer, surrealist, model, war correspondent, writer, traveller, and cook, who lived her many lives with passion and audacity. These lives are all reflected in her dress and style which is documented in this show curated by Martin. The exhibition opened in October 2023 at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.

A Brighton-heavy episode this week, as Chris and Rifa check out the exhibition Lee Miller: Dressed at Brighton Museum, then hang out at Embodied Realities, at The Old Market, as part of the new Dreamy Place festival. Rifa is reading a book about menopause and Chris is reading Julian Jaynes' classic The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind.

In episode 277 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on understanding and promoting contemporary landscape photography, when clients are made redundant, and what a photographer leaves behind. Plus this week, photographer Nicholas Sinclair takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Nicholas Sinclair was born in London in 1954 and studied Fine Art and Art History at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne between 1973 to 1976. His career as a photographer began in 1982 while playing the drums in a Moroccan circus when he began taking photographs of the circus acts between performances, photographs that were first published by The British Journal of Photography in 1983 and exhibited at The University of Sussex in the same year. After the season ended, he visited other circuses with the aim of extending the series. This work was subsequently shown at The National Theatre in London in 1985 and at The Photography Centre of Athens in 1986. In 1987 he began photographing British artists in their studios a series of portraits that spans thirty years and includes Anthony Caro, Gillian Wearing, Frank Auerbach, Gilbert & George, Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton. Work from this series is now in the permanent collections of European museums and galleries including The National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, amongst other institutions. Forty-seven of these portraits are in the collection of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester where they were exhibited in 2014. In 1995 he was commissioned by Brighton Museum & Art Gallery to make a series of photographs of contemporary fetishism for inclusion in the exhibition Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire. In 2002 Sinclair published his first book of landscape photographs entitled Crossing the Water, a series made on the perimeter of a lake over a twelve-month period. In 2003 he was made a Hasselblad Master and in 2009 Sinclair moved to Berlin and established a studio there in 2011. In 2019 a German production company made a thirty-minute documentary about his work and he was appointed Visiting Professor at Richmond, The American International University in London. In 2021 Sinclair published Polaroids, a book of studio portraits to mark ten years of working in the studio and a short film entitled Rhythm of the Blood. He is currently working on a new series of photographs titled Neon Trees Miscellany made in East Berlin. www.nicholassinclair.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. Scott's next book Condé Nast Have Left The Building: Six Decades of Vogue House will be published by Orphans Publishing in the Spring of 2024. © Grant Scott 2023

In this special episode, we delve into the Meet Me at the Museum archive to pull out highlights from our visits to museums near the coast, including writer and art historian Katy Hessel at the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, author and podcaster Robert Diament at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, and actor and comedian Mawaan Rizwan at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As part of a charity mission this month an all-women team are travelling from the UK to Ukraine with much needed supplies and plan to return with 28 refugee women and children, and their pets. Two of the women on the trip are Barbara Want and Suzanne Pullin. Half of all children in lone-parent families are now living in poverty according to a new report. We speak to the co-author of the report, Xiaowei Xu, a Senior Research Economist at the IFS, and Victoria Benson, Chief Executive of Gingerbread. Tomorrow the Women's Euros will begin - England and Northern Ireland are taking part and 2022 looks like it'll be a huge year for the women's game with matches shown on terrestrial TV, record attendances, greater visibility and awareness. A new exhibition Goal Power! at Brighton Museum celebrates the achievements of the trailblazers in the women's game and Charlotte Petts spoke to some of them. There's no doubt it's challenging being a parent when your children depend upon you for pretty much everything. But what about later on, when they are supposedly independent and all grown up? Surely it gets easier. Not necessarily according to authors of two new books, Celia Dodd and Annette Byford join Emma in the studio. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

A joint investigation by The College of Policing and Fire & Rescue Service and the Independent Office for Police Conduct has found that there are ‘systemic deficiencies' in the way some police forces deal with allegations of domestic abuse against their own officers. We discuss with Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blythe, National Police Lead for Violence Against Women and Girls; David Tucker, Head of Crime and Criminal Justice, College of Policing and Nogah Ofer from the CWJ. It's a big year for women's football and the Women's Euros begin on Wednesday but women have long been playing the beautiful game. An exhibition at Brighton Museum called Goal Power! Women's Football 1894-2022 features the stories of veteran players and Charlotte Petts asked them for their memories. A new study has shown that children who are born at or just before the weekend to disadvantaged mothers are less likely to be breastfed, due to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. Co-author of the study, Professor Emla Fitzsimons from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Clare Livingstone, professional policy adviser and lead on infant feeding for the Royal College of Midwives join Emma. It's probably no surprise to hear that porn is a multi-billion dollar business and a huge monopoliser of the internet. A new podcast series, Hot Money by Financial Times reporters Patricia Nilsson and Alex Barker explores how the business of online porn works and finds out who is actually in control. Patricia Nilsson joins Emma. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

The musical concerts mentioned at the end of the interview can be explored through this link. Below are two examples of concerts and Sir Norman Rosenthal's biography is beneath that. Norman Rosenthal was born in Cambridge, UK, in 1944, the son of Paul Rosenthal and Kaethe Zucker, who came to England in 1941 and 1939 respectively. He was educated at Westminster City Grammar School and the University of Leicester, where he graduated in 1966 with a degree in history. He undertook postgraduate studies at the School of Slavonic and Eastern Studies, as well as the Free University of Berlin. Norman Rosenthal organised his first exhibition in 1965 Artists in Cornwall at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in connection with the University Arts Festival. Since that time his professional career took him to Thomas Agnew & Sons, the well known firm of London art dealers, as librarian and researcher from 1966 – 1970; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery as exhibition officer from 1970 – 1971; Artist's Market, a non-profit making gallery in Covent Garden, as organiser; from 1973 to 1976 director of European art exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, responsible for two festivals, one in 1974 devoted to contemporary German culture, which inter alia brought Joseph Beuys to London for the first time, where he made his famous blackboard environment Richtkräfte, now belonging to the Nationalgalerie Berlin. The other, in 1975, was devoted to contemporary Greek culture, which brought inter alia Jannis Kounellis to London. From 1977 –December 2007 Norman Rosenthal was Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where he enabled and organised all loan exhibitions, including Robert Motherwell 1978; Post Impressionism 1979-1980; A New Spirit in Painting 1981; Painting in Naples 1981;  David Hockney: A Drawing Retrospective 1995; Sensation 1997; Joseph Beuys: The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland 1999; Georg Baselitz 2007; and many more. Many of the above exhibitions were organised in conjunction with major museums, largely in Europe and in North America. Norman Rosenthal has been particularly associated with a series of exhibitions at the Royal Academy documenting the art of the 20th Century, including German art in the Twentieth Century 1985; British Art in the Twentieth Century 1987; Italian Art in the Twentieth Century 1989; Pop Art 1991; American Art in the Twentieth Century 1993. At the Martin Gropius-Bau, the leading exhibition venue in Berlin, Norman Rosenthal was jointly responsible for two ground-breaking exhibitions of contemporary art: Zeitgeist in 1982 and Metropolis 1991, as well as The Age of Modernism- Art in the 20th Century, 1997. In 2005 Norman Rosenthal was curator of the exhibition From Luther to the Bauhaus – National Treasures from Germany, for the Konferenz National Kultureinrichtungen [KNK], in collaboration with the Kunst – und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [KAH], Bonn. Appointments and awards include: 1985-2000 Member of the Board of the Palazzo Grassi, Venice 1987 Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London 1988 Chevalier de l'Ordre de Arts et Lettres of the French Republic 1989 Cavaliere Ufficiale of the Italian Republic 1993 Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany 1994-1998 Opera Advisory Board, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 2002-2012 Appointed to Board of Trustees, Thyssen Bornemisza Foundation, Madrid 2003 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic 2003 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters [D, Litt] University of Southampton 2004-2007 Member of Board of Trustees, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 2005 Member of Comité Scientifique, Réunion des Museés Nationaux, Paris 2006 Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters [D, Litt] University of Leicester 2006 Member of the Order of the Aguila Azteca of the Federal Republic of Mexico

We remember Alber Elbaz and his wonderful design sensibility and talk about the amazing jewels on view at Bonhams this week. See links below. Present & Correct: https://www.presentandcorrect.com/ AZ Factory Show Fashion by Alber Elbaz (26 January 2021): https://youtu.be/wssdl8xlZSk AZ Factory: https://www.azfactory.com/ Geoffrey Beene: A Duet of Fashion + Movement, Phoenix Art Museum (2021): http://www.arizonacostumeinstitute.org/geoffrey-beene-virtual-unveiling-fundraiser Loïc Prigent (director), The Day Before: Lanvin (2011): https://distribution.arte.tv/fiche/LANVIN__-_LE_JOUR_D_AVANT and https://youtu.be/FcYDtlQNtWc Bonhams Jewels: https://www.instagram.com/bonhamsjewels/ John Brogden at the V&A: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/jewellery-designs#slideshow=93099346&slide=0 Fashion and Fancy Dress (The Messel Family Dress Collection at Brighton Museum): https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/2015/02/26/fashion-and-fancy-dress-2/

With 16 years experience in the global fashion industry living and working in 4 countries (Turkey, China, Germany and England UK) over 4 continents (USA/Europe/Asia and Africa) for international brands and retailers including Puma, C&A, Animal, Russell Athletic, WIlson and Fila, Professional Fashion Designer Jacqueline Shaw birthed Africa Fashion Guide, the only sourcing consultancy and information based platform for African fashion. Africa Fashion Guide has become a key tool that educates, informs and retunes the perceptions of Africa's fashion and textile industry – an industry Jacqueline sees as a vehicle for trade and development. Now as an Author of the acclaimed coffee table book Fashion Africa, an International Public Speaker, a University lecturer, an African Fashion Business Coach, a Consultant and an industry researcher, Jacqueline, who owns a Bachelors degree in Fashion (2001), a Masters degree in Ethical Fashion (2011) and a Masters in Social Research (2018) is known for being an expert and most proudly an ambassador in the Ethical African fashion landscape. Having spoken at elite venues such as House of Lords London, London Eye, European Commission Brussels, Fashion Institute Technology NYC, Who's Next Paris to name a few, she actively campaigns for a more responsible way of doing fashion business and doing it well in Africa. Jacqueline has built up her name and is recognised internationally as a public speaker. As an African Fashion Business Coach with past clients that includes Lineapelle, Miroglio, Brighton Museum (for their Fashion Cities Africa exhibition), Prospero World (World for their African Fashion Award) and British Council (for their Enterprise Africa Summit), she uses her expertise to bring to life African fashion led projects. Jacqueline, with her unique tools and strategies, specialises in creating sustainable solutions that help new and existing fashion businesses successfully navigate the sourcing and manufacturing landscape of Africa's fashion and textile industry.  Jacqueline believes Africa is Fashion's Future and has used her African fashion tee shirt campaign using Fairtrade, organic African cotton tees made in Africa by Africans to spread this message on the catwalks of London Fashion Week to Ghana to Los Angeles. Jacqueline is unapologetically a champion for fashion in Africa and her work and reputation not only proceeds her, but represents her enthusiasm and high belief in this. Due to this she aims to equip as much people as possible in setting up businesses in Africa to build trade, contribute to Africa's GDP, and impact thousands of African lives using the vehicle of Fashion. Jacqueline through Africa Fashion Guide Ltd has an array of events and programs including Fashion Africa Conference, Fashion Africa Voices, Fashion Africa Business Academy, Fashion Africa Trade Expo and Fashion Africa Sourcing Trips. Learn more: LinkedIn | Wax and Wraps Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design Executive Producer:Fashion Consort Follow the podcast on Instagram: @RetailRevolutionPodcast

We're back!In this, our comeback episode, curators Melissa and Poppy rifle through museum stores for the very best of Valentines collections. We uncover the disturbing world of Brighton Museum's Vinegar Valentines, take a peek at some of Wordsworth Grasmere's spicier letters, and dredge up something HAIRY from York Castle Museum. And for this week's item spotlight, you'd better wrap up warm...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thingsinjarspodcast)

“ZENPod” Season-3, episode 4, featuring Ms. Jacqueline Shaw, A professional Fashion Designer, Birthed the Africa Fashion Guide, Author of “Fashion Africa”, International Public Speaker and African Fashion Business Coach. “Spirituality for me is about connection with God, understanding who I am, knowing that I am here for a purpose', - says Jacqueline Shaw in her conversation with Venkatesh Mahadevan With 16 years experience in the global fashion industry, living and working in 4 countries over 4 continents, Jacqueline has worked for brands and retailers such as Puma, C&A, Fila, Russell Athletic, Animal, Wilson. A Professional Fashion Designe, Jacqueline birthed Africa Fashion Guide, the only sourcing consultancy and information based platform for African fashion, as a tool to educate, inform and retune the perceptions of Africa's fashion and textile industry - a vehicle she sees for trade and development. Jacqueline is the Author of the coffee table book Fashion Africa (2011 and 2014) and the business book ‘Fashion Cannot Be Made in Africa (2020). An International Public Speaker, a University Fashion lecturer, an African Fashion Business Coach, a Sourcing Consultant and industry researcher, Jacqueline, who is a Masters degree holder in Ethical Fashion and a Masters in Social Research is known for being an expert and most proudly an ambassador in the Ethical African fashion landscape. Jacqueline believes Africa is Fashion's Future and has used her African fashion tee shirt campaign using Fairtrade, organic African cotton tees made in Africa by Africans to spread this message on the catwalks of London Fashion Week to Ghana to Los Angeles. She aims to equip as many people as possible in setting up businesses in Africa to build trade, contribute to Africa's GDP, and impact thousands of African lives using the vehicle of Fashion. Jacqueline has delivered talks at elite venues such as House of Lords in London, @ the London Eye, European Commission Brussels, Fashion Institute Technology NYC, Who's Next Paris and a Panel moderate at the UK-Africa Investment pre-Summit Manufacturing Panel, to name a few. She actively campaigns for a more responsible way of doing fashion business and doing it well in Africa. Jacqueline has built up her name and is recognised internationally as a public speaker As an African Fashion Business Coach with past clients that include Lineapelle, Miroglio, Brighton Museum for Fashion Cities Africa exhibition, Prospero World and British Council for their Enterprise Africa Summit she uses her expertise to bring to life African fashion led projects. Jacqueline, with her unique tools and strategies, specialises in creating sustainable solutions that help new and existing fashion businesses successfully navigate the sourcing and manufacturing landscape of Africa's fashion and textile industry. Jacqueline through Africa Fashion Guide Ltd has now launched programs including Fashion Africa Conference, Fashion Africa Voices, Fashion Africa Business Academy, Fashion Africa Trade Expo and Fashion Africa Sourcing Trips." “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.

In episode two of the OfScene podcast, we chat about our recent trip to the Brighton Dome for a socially distanced gig, Rory runs us through the new David Bowie exhibition at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, and we give you an update on the magazine, upcoming blog posts and new playlist additions. You can donate to the Live Is Alive! campaign here: https://bit.ly/2JzUSmP Pre-order issue one of the magazine via ofscenemagazine.bigcartel.com Tell us about your favourite venue, band or type of cheese at ofscenemagazine@gmail.com Blog: ofscenemagazine.wordpress.com Instagram: @ofscenemagazine Twitter: @ofscenemagazine Want to write for us? Drop us an email: ofscenemagazine@gmail.com

After a mid-season hiatus and a bit of overseas travel, Chris and Rifa return for another bitesize munch on culture, tech and diversity. This week the show is taped in our Barcelona hotel room. We would've recorded it on the roof terrace but there were noisy Brits. We chat about new Netflix drama series Dead To Me starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. We also talk about visiting Brighton Museum's new archaeological gallery, with its excellent exhibition uncovering some of the earliest humans to live in Sussex, including hi-tech facial reconstructions from their original skulls. It's a quick episode to ease us back into the habit of podding, so expect more soon. Hope you dig it. Find us at Facebook.com/refigurepod and on Twitter @refigurepod and on Insta @refigureUK Cheerio.

Actor, writer and comedian Mawaan Rizwan takes his mum along to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, where they delve into the extensive collection of materials and objects relating to LGBTQI+ history, reflect on the connection between fashion, sexuality and identity, and also explore the ‘Museum of Transology’, the largest collection representing trans people in the UK. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ASC seminar by Edith Ojo (Brighton based arts freelancer) & Nicola Stylianou (MoDa, Middlesex University) The Fashioning Africa project at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (2015-2018) aimed to develop a new collection of African dress from 1960-2007. This was an area where existing British museum collections were weak to the point of virtual non-existence. The project was innovative in other ways too, because, as a collaboration between the Museum’s World Art (formerly ‘Ethnography’, later ‘Non-Western’) and Fashion & Textiles sections, it cross-cut conventional curatorial divisions and allowed the Museum to transcend the problem of reproducing the split between ‘African dress’ and ‘Western fashion’. Moreover, it aimed to explore new ways of collecting by devolving decisions over what to acquire to an external panel, thus aspiring to look beyond expertise in the field of museology to co-produce the new collection with diverse interested parties bringing other forms of knowledge to bear. This paper will address why African dress hasn’t been systematically collected in the post- independence period and explore the methodology of co-production. Edith Ojo is an Arts Consultant based in Brighton who has always worked closely with diverse artists and art organisations across the region. She also currently sits on the Fashioning Africa Collection Panel, Brighton Museum. Prior to becoming a freelance consultant, Edith worked at Arts Council England for several years as Diversity in Arts Relationship Manager. She holds an MA in African Studies (SOAS), and a BA in Fine Art (Chelsea College of Art & Design). She is also currently a Trustee at a local Brighton Community organisation, Trust for Developing Communities. Nicola Stylianou was awarded a PhD in 2013 for her thesis ‘Producing and Collecting for Empire: African textiles at the V&A 1852-2002.’ She went on to work at the V&A on a two-room display about the African objects in the V&A collection. She currently works at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University. In January she takes up a position at the University of Sussex to work as a post-doctoral researcher on Making African Connections in Sussex and Kent Museums: De-colonial futures for colonial collections. She is a participant in the Fashioning Africa Collection Panel at Brighton Museum, a project to acquire African fashion and textiles from 1960-2000.

MOOP Talk: MuseumThe Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is a pop up museum that champions the magic and mundanity of everyday life. We celebrate the ripples people leave behind. We want to challenge existing paradigms and rewrite the history books.The idea of MOOP Talks is to explore themes that resonate with us and what we do.MOOP Talk: Museum was a way of exploring how museums are evolving, and how they are being challenged and disrupted. The idea was to foster discussion between existing spaces. We were interested in the definition of a museum itself, emotional resonance, connection and representation, voices (who’s speaking, and who has a voice), the future, belonging and participation.The speakers were:• Richard Martin, curator of public programmes at The Tate - 00:00:00• Edith Ojo, Freelance Arts Consultant and Tshepo Skwambane, Community Advocate and Facilitator - both speaking about co-creating the “Fashioning Africa” project at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery - 00:19:38• EJ Scott, founder and curator of the Museum of Transology - 00:44:55We hope you enjoy! Our next talk, MOOP Talk: Action takes place in Brighton on October 1st - tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moop-talk-action-tickets-50062797174

- community hero and fundraising stalwart Danny Dwyer, founder of Bear Patrol - - Looking ahead to the Marlborough's events, workshops and performances for Trans Pride - and Melita Dennett on Gilbert and George at Brighton Museum

Gilbert & George are a Turner Prize-winning artist partnership, who have worked and shared their lives together for fifty years. The playful and ambiguous works on display at Brighton Museum explore themes essential to humanity and contemporary society including sex, faith, and identity.  Melita Dennett went along to meet curator of Fine Art Jenny Lund to walk her through the exhibition.  Event Details: https://brightonfestival.org/event/13503/gilbert_and_george/ To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

Regular host Rebecca Sandle's nephew Tim is in town and has been along to some of the events at this year's Festival. He joins Rebecca and Melita in studio to talk about the Gilbert and George exhibition at Brighton Museum and Life Model II. To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

One of the events opening the 2018 Brighton Festival, curated this year by artist David Shrigley, is "Pitch Perfect", a series of free concerts around the city by young classical performers. On Saturday afternoon they'll be performing at Brighton Museum and other locations, and earlier this week they played in the pod of the i360 on Brighton's sea front. Melita Dennett was there.... Event Details: [https://brightonfestival.org/event/13475/pitch_perfect/](https://brightonfestival.org/event/13475/pitch_perfect/) To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - proud Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #classical #youthmusic

Fenella Fielding's most famous moment is in Carry on Screaming as she reclines seductively on a couch in a red velvet dress, asks Harry H Corbett "Do you mind if I smoke?" and steam billows. The line gives the title to her memoir, co-authored with Simon McKay. On her 90th birthday, she reminisces about playing Hedda Gabler, being a foil to Morecambe and Wise... and that Carry On moment. The painter Gluck (1895-1978) is now regarded as a trailblazer of gender fluidity, famous for her fashion as well as the portraits of herself and her lovers. Front Row discusses Gluck's life and art with biographer Diana Souhami and Amy de la Haye, curator of a new exhibition at the Brighton Museum. A player of the new Call of Duty video game, set in the |Second World War, could assume the role of a black female Nazi. Yet its makers claim it is historically accurate. Front Row discusses how video games depict war and how close to the truth can they really be.It's Children in Need day and throughout it poets have been appearing on Radio 4 reading poems which recollect childhood. On Front Row we hear from Mona Arshi. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Julian May.

Philip Dodd talks to Howard Jacobson and discusses Zoo Time, his first novel since winning the Man Booker Prize in 2010. The philosopher Julian Baggini, the theologian John Millbank and historian Roey Sweet discuss morality. And Philip talks to Barbara Hulanicki, the founder of the iconic clothes store Biba, who is celebrated in a new exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.

Hardeep Singh Kohli meets Dr Pamela Stephenson, wildlife film-maker Alan Root, creator of Biba, Barbara Hulanicki and soprano Nadine Mortimer-Smith. Soprano Nadine Mortimer-Smith is an opera singer and founder of Opera in Colour. She had a promising and secure career in the City but five years ago gave it all up to pursue her passion for opera. In 2009 she won 'Most Promising Voice' at the Voice of Black Opera competition. She will be performing in Naked Opera at the Forge in London. Alan Root OBE is an acclaimed wildlife film-maker. Born in London in 1937, he moved to Kenya as a young boy and after leaving school at sixteen soon found himself behind the camera. He and his wife Joan Thorpe produced many award-winning wildlife films including 'Baobab: Portrait of a Tree'; 'Safari by Balloon'; 'The Year of the Wildebeest' and 'Castles in Clay', which was nominated for an Oscar. His memoir, 'Ivory, Apes & Peacocks - Animals, Adventure and Discovery in the wild places of Africa ' is published by Chatto & Windus. Psychologist Dr Pamela Stephenson is a former actress and comedian. In her autobiography, 'The Varnished Untruth' she tells of her complicated childhood in Australia, before making a move to London, and being a woman in a man's world on 'Not The 9 O'Clock News'. 'The Varnished Untruth' is published by Simon and Schuster. Barbara Hulanicki OBE is a fashion designer who established the boutique Biba with her husband. With its cutting edge yet affordable fashion, the Biba store and label transformed the High Street shopping experience in the 1960s and 70s. Young working women shopped alongside models and celebrities including Sonny and Cher, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Twiggy and Brigitte Bardot. An exhibition celebrating her work, 'Biba and Beyond' is at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Producer: Paula McGinley.