![]() With more people than ever before using the library-a record 17 million last year alone-your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive. Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. William Sieghart joins us to discuss poetry's pwer to soothe.Īnd Front Row’s artist in residence pianist Víkingur Ólafsson plays La Damoiselle élue by Claude Debussy, live from Reykjavik’s Harper concert hall.The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. The poems are chosen from William Sieghart’s Poetry Pharmacy anthologies which prescribe poems ‘for the heart, mind and soul’, and have been performed so far by Helena Bonham Carter, Idris Elba, Stephen Fry and Andrew Scott. French author and cultural commentator Agnes Poirier explains how they will work and whether any lessons can be learned for sustaining the cultural landscape in Britain.Įmilia Clarke has a new online project in which she asks leading actors to perform poems to help us with the psychological difficulties of the pandemic. President Macron has announced a series of measures to help the culture sector in France recover from the effects of Covid-19. ![]() The film is available on Curzon Home Cinema.Īs new episodes of The Archers return to Radio 4, we talk to James Cartwright who plays PC Harrison Burns about ways the world’s longest running soap is responding to the challenges of Coronavirus on and off air. In his latest film The County, he tells the story of a woman who singlehandedly takes on corruption in her local farmers’ cooperative. The Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson won acclaim for his film Rams. ![]() Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng’s bestselling novel set in 1997 suburban America and raising questions around class and race, has been made into a drama on Amazon Prime, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. ![]() ![]() For Front Row’s Friday review, the author Patrice Lawrence and film critic Hannah McGill consider two new options to stream. ![]()
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