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Front Row, Front Row, Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser

Front Row

Front Row

Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser

June 4, 2025

43 minutes

Available for over a year

Daisy Goodwin discusses her debut play, By Royal Appointment, which stars Anne Reid as Queen Elizabeth and Caroline Quentin as her dresser, and which opens this week at Theatre Royal, Bath.

The life and legacy of Irish novelist playwright and poet Edna O'Brien is discussed by writer Jan Carson and the director of the documentary Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story, Sinead O’Shea.

And we hear from the curator of Design & Disability, an exhibition at the V&A in London which showcases the contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people to contemporary design and culture since the 1940s.

Plus Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst pays tribute to American writer Edmund White, whose death has just been announced.

Presenter: Kirsty Wark

Producer: Mark Crossan