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NT, Royal Ballet and ACE to feature on More4 prime-time arts strand

Published Tuesday 27 October 2009 at 10:06 by Michael Quinn

The National Theatre, the Royal Ballet and Arts Council England are to collaborate with Channel 4 digital channel More4 on a primetime Saturday arts programme strand.

The seven-week More4 Arts season begins in November with Phil Grabsky’s documentary on the making of the National Theatre’s hit adaptation of Michael Murpurgo’s War Horse, made with the South African-based Handspring Theatre Company and now playing in the West End at the New London Theatre.

The Royal Ballet’s historic first tour to Cuba in July this year – the first major foreign dance company to visit the country in almost three decades – will also be profiled alongside a documentary on the Bolshoi Ballet.

Other scheduled broadcasts include programmes on literature and visual arts, the multi award-winning Autism: The Musical, which profiles five young autistic children and their families during the creation of a music theatre piece in Los Angeles, and Mark Cousins’ magic-realist film The First Movie, made with Kurdish-Iraqi children.

More4 editor Tabitha Jackson said she hoped the initiative, which launches in November, would “provide a new appointment to view for arts this winter”.

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