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Bryan Adams; Lang Lang; Kennedy films

Arts programme with Mark Lawson, including singer Bryan Adams on his photographs of war veterans and an interview with Chinese pianist Lang Lang.

With Mark Lawson.

Bryan Adams - best known as a musician and singer songwriter - also works as a professional photographer. For the past five years, Adams has been taking photographs of British war veterans who have suffered life changing injuries. The series of photographs has been published in a new book "Wounded: The Legacy of War". Bryan Adams discusses working with injured soldiers and his aim to show the effects of war.

Mark interviews the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, as he releases a new disc of music by Prokofiev and Bartok, with conductor Sir Simon Rattle.

As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, two new films revisit the 22nd November 1963. Parkland, staring Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti and Marcia Gay Harden, focuses on people who were unexpectedly caught up in events - including hospital staff and the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald. In the TV documentary The Day Kennedy Died, key witnesses, including the doctor who tried to save Kennedy's life, offer their version of events. Michael Goldfarb and Diane Roberts review both films.

Producer Timothy Prosser.

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Mon 11 Nov 201319:15
BBC Radio 4

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  • Bryan Adams

    Duration: 09:03

  • Kennedy films

    Duration: 06:39

  • Lang Lang

    Duration: 08:55

  • Unique or bespoke literary editions

    Duration: 03:02

Bryan Adams

Wounded: The Legacy of War by Bryan Adams is available in hardback now.


Lang Lang

Lang Lang
Prokofiev 3 Bartok 2 by Lang Lang, Simon Rattle and Berliner Philharmoniker is out now.

Image above: Lang Lang at the piano, photo by Detelf Schneider.


The Day Kennedy Died

The Day Kennedy Died is on ITV on Thursday 14th November at 10.35pm


Parkland

Parkland is in cinemas from 22nd November certificate 15


Credits

PresenterMark Lawson
Interviewed GuestLang Lang
Interviewed GuestBryan Adams
ProducerTimothy Prosser

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  • Mon 11 Nov 201319:15
    BBC Radio 4

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