Arena Thursday 5 July 2018
on Friday's show....classical guitarist Xuefei Yang whose career spans Chairman Mao's cultural revolution to the Chinese New Year celebrations in Ireland, comedian Áine Gallagher wants to talk about our love, yet fear of, the Irish language and the latest albums from Chaka Khan, Picture This and John Fratelli
Film reviews
Arlene Hunt and Stephen Boyd review "Mary Shelley", "Whitney" and "The First Purge" / the death of Claude Lanzmann, director of major Holocaust documentary "Shoah"
Review: "The Lieutenant of Inishmore", starring Aidan Turner
Henry Martin reviews the London production of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" by Martin McDonagh, starring Aidan Turner
Preview: "Picnic At Hanging Rock", coming to BBC2
Hannah Parkes previews the upcoming tv series of the Australian dark mystery "Picnic At Hanging Rock", showing on BBC2
Keywords
Music Played on the Show
M'Bife
Amadou & Mariam
2:09
Arena With Seán Rocks
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