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Ben Stiller, Martin Rowson on James Gillray, Artist Peter Doig

Ben Stiller on his film While We're Young, Martin Rowson reviews Love Bites, caricatures by James Gillray, and artist Peter Doig reflects on his painting White Canoe.

Ben Stiller discusses his new film While We're Young, in which he plays a middle-aged documentary-maker who befriends a much younger couple and struggles to keep up with their hipster lifestyle.

As the artist Peter Doig prepares for his new solo exhibition in Venice, one of the world's most successful living artists reflects on his 2007 painting White Canoe which set an auction record for a living European artist when it sold for £5.7m.

Caricaturist James Gillray was celebrated for his incisive ridiculing of royalty and politicians. On the 200th anniversary of his death the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford explores his work and the impact it had. Cartoonist Martin Rowson reviews more than 60 of Gillray's caricatures on display.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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Wed 25 Mar 201519:16
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Chapters

  • Ben Stiller

    Duration: 09:49

  • Martin Rowson on James Gillray

    Duration: 05:19

  • Joanne Harris on artistic censorship

    Duration: 04:56

  • Artist Peter Doig

    Duration: 07:44

Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller discusses his film While We're Young. Released on Friday 3 April, certificate 15.

Peter Doig

Peter Doig

Peter Doig's first solo exhibition is at Palazetto Tito at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice from 5 May until 4 October 2015.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

James Gillray

James Gillray

A new exhibition celebrates the work of the caricaturist James Gillray.

Love Bites: Caricatures by James Gillray is showing at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 26 Mar 2015 to 21 Jun 2015.

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PresenterJohn Wilson
Interviewed GuestBen Stiller
Interviewed GuestPeter Doig
Interviewed GuestMartin Rowson
ProducerJerome Weatherald

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  • Wed 25 Mar 201519:16
    BBC Radio 4

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