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* In his work SIDNEY NOLAN created a series of Australian icons. The NED KELLY series of paintings are the ones by which Nolan, who died in 1992, are best known. TOM ROSENTHAL, who has written a book about him, believes his later work in other countries is no less considerable.
Sidney Nolan is published by Thames and Hudson.
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* Biographer Peter Ackroyd presents Charles Dickens in the style of a modern arts documentary, with incidents from the author's life dramatised and set against excerpts from previous television adaptations of Dickens' work. Matthew Sweet, television critic of The Independent on Sunday and author of Inventing the Victorians watched it for Front Row.
Dickens starts on Saturday 4 May on BBC2 at 9.00pm.
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* Nawal El Saadawi is an Egyptian writer and political activist who, even in her 70s, is still considered threatening. She's been imprisoned, exiled to the US following death threats, and last year the religious authorities in Cairo attempted to have her 38-year-long marriage forcibly dissolved. Although her novels are concerned with freedom and injustice, not all her writing is polemical. When Nawal El Saadawi came into the studio she told Front Row when the creative urge began.
Walking Through Fire, the second part of Nawal El Saadawi's biography is available from Zed Books.
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* Grossology, an exhibition at the Science Museum, purveys aromas of armpit, morning mouth, feet and the rest. Ironically this coincides with the death of Michael Todd Jnr, the film producer who gave us the world's only full-length Smell-o-Vision movie The Scent of Mystery (with its advertising strapline "First They Moved, Then They Talked, Now They Smell". Was Smell-o-Vision a good idea ahead of its time, or did it just stink?
Grossology runs until 6 September at the Science Museum, London.
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RELATED LINKS
Dickens - the website of the new BBC programme
The Science Museum
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