Homecomings
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Nicola Heywood Thomas and guests from the worlds of opera, theatre and art discuss homecomings. Aidan Lang, the new General Director of Welsh National Opera talks about his plans for the company where he started his career. Dame Anne Evans, one of the greatest operatic sopranos of her generation, looks forward to the Machynlleth Festival where she'll be leading a series of masterclasses. Also at Machynlleth is artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins who's receiving the Glyndwr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales. And Shôn Dale-Jones, whose theatre Company Hoipolloi marks its 25th year, talks about the continuing influence on his work of his childhood growing up in Anglesey.
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