Mother Mary, Purcell: The Musical, and Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark

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Director David Lowery talks about Mother Mary, a new film starring Anne Hathaway as the titular global pop icon who turns to her estranged friend and former creative partner Sam Anselm, played by Michaela Coel, to help her connect with her roots on the eve of the performance of a lifetime. It's in cinemas from tomorrow. The life and music of the Baroque-era composer Henry Purcell is explored in a ‘concert-play’, with Edinburgh and Glasgow dates this week. It’s called Purcell: The Musical, and it stars Whose Line is it Anyway’s Niall Ashdown in the main role. Niall and the writer of the show, Clare Norburn, chat to Len. James Bailey talks about Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, his new biography marking 20 years since her death. It focuses on her elusive quality in life and in her writing and covers her story in a series of fascinating snapshots.