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THURSDAY NIGHT
* Ben Pimlott reviews the TV jubilee drama Bertie and Elizabeth, about the life of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Bertie and Elizabeth is screened next Tuesday on ITV 1 at 8.30pm
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* The lights are on but is anybody home? The shortlist for the 2002 Turner Prize has been announced by the contest's organisers. This year's nominees - Fiona Banner, Liam Gillick, Keith Tyson and Catherine Yass - are all British-born and are known for a wide range of work.
The winner will be announced in December.
Listen to the discussion
* Jonathan Safran Foer is a novelist who writes in very bad English - fantastically misunderstanding numerous everyday phrases and would normally expect to be dismissed as an idiot. But Everything Is Illuminated is one of the most enthusiastically reviewed first novels in U.S history.
Everything Is Illuminated is published in hardback by Hamish Hamilton
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* Can't work your video? Don't worry we'll do it for you. 50,000 owners of TiVos discovered that the BBC dumped a recording of Caroline Aherne's Dossa And Joe onto their machines whether they wanted it or not. Some would say that coming downstairs to find that the BBC had secretly been operating their videos was the stuff of Orwellian nightmare.
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* William Forsyth has become one of the most successful modern choreographers: his reputation resting on the Ballet Frankfurt troupe which he founded in 1984. But - to the great surprise of the dance world - Forsyth has found himself to be a hero everywhere except at home. Frankfurt City Council plan to close down his company and replace it with a classical dance troupe.
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On tomorrow's Front Row
a review of Anthony Sher in The Roman Actor at Stratford and Hermione Lee on a new biography of Rosamond Lehmann.
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