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|  | |     | | * Don Byron is constantly experimenting. Classically trained, he's extended his musical adventures from Klezmer to samba. His collaborations range from Daniel Barenboim to Carole King. He's currently on tour in this country with Bug Music for Juniors. In it, he introduces figures from the history of jazz illustrated with cartoons, music and short films.
Powerhouse from Don Byron's Bug Music available on Nonesuch and Don Byron's UR Number Six: More Music for Six Musicians is available on BlueNote.
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* Since September 11th Americans have been looking for a good old fashioned hero. Mel Gibson returns to the screen in We Were Soldiers, a true story of the first major conflict in the Vietnam War. But how well does this film depict men (and women) at war?
We Were Soldiers is on release around the country this Friday , certificate 15.
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* Roy Porter, one of Britain's best known historians, sadly died recently. Jonathan Miller remembers the iconoclastic scholar.
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*When Kate's parents are killed in a road accident it is left to her two brothers to struggle to keep the family together. But the cost of pushing their own interests into the background will be counted over the decades. In her first novel, Crow Lake, Canadian writer Mary Lawson invokes a landscape familiar from her childhood.
Crow Lake is published by Chatto and Windus.
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* In the US ABC is ditching Ted Koppel's Nightline for David Letterman's Late Night. As News makes way for comedy we ask, "Is this the shape of things to come?"
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* ITV goes behind the scenes at Beckingham Palace to find the real Posh Spice. Just wehat is it like Being Victoria Beckham.
Being Victoria Beckham wass on ITV 1 at 9pm (04/03/02) .
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