Julie Andrews
Monday 31 March 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Julie Andrews talks to Matthew Sweet about her new autobiography, Home: A Memoir of the Early Years.
Best known for her roles in the Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, Andrews has now written about her difficult early life and complex family background for the first time.
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Julie Andrews
Matthew Sweet talks to the singer and actress Julie Andrews about her new memoir of her early years.
Born into a working class family which was soon split by her mother's affair with a singer called Ted Andrews, Julie Andrews talks for the first time about her difficult early life and the complex family background from which her astonishing talent for singing and dancing finally allowed her to escape.
Home: A Memoir of my Early Years is published by Orion.
Life on other Planets
Despite the failure of the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, space experts throughout the world continue the search for life on other planets in other parts of the universe.
Many experts believe that space is probably teeming with life, but have we considered what we might do if we find it, and what the philosophical implications of a discovery might be.
We look at the search for extra-terrestrial life in fact and fiction, and look at our obsessional search for a close encounter.
Bette Davis & Melodrama
And as we approach the centenary of the birth of Bette Davis, Matthew and his guests look at the film genre with which she is most associated: melodrama.
The Satanic Verses
With the opening of the first ever stage play in Potsdam, Germany of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Matthew finds out why the controversy doesn't seem to have resurged.
