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|  | |     | | * The death has been announced of Spike Milligan. We discuss his work with the writer Michael Rosen and Jeremy Dyson of The League of Gentlemen, but before that we'll hear from the man himself - a relatively recent recording of a poem relating to his depression, an earlier example of his stand-up performance and his explanation of how he first came to write nonsense verse for children
Listen to Spike Milligan tribute.
* Film director Larry Clark talks about his work and his new film Bully which is based on a real case, the murder in 1993 in a South Florida suburb of a teenager Bobby Kent.
Larry Clark's film Bully is certificate 18. It opens in London this week and then at selected cinemas across the country.
Listen to Larry Clark
* Last summer, a company drawn largely from amateurs in the Cape Town area of South Africa played a few performances of their version of the Medieval Mystery Plays at Wilton's Music Hall in East London. It is now opening in the West End. BBC journalist Alan Little reviews
The Mysteries.
The Mysteries continues at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End for the next 12 weeks. A programme Township Opera which follows the auditioning process for the actors for this production is being shown on the new BBC4 the digital channel on Sunday night at 7pm.
Listen to review of The Mysteries
* Marianne Faithfull's new album is reviewed by Jackie Clune.
Kissin Time,Marianne Faithfull's new album, is released next week.
Listen to review of Marianne Faithfull
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