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FRIDAY 02 AUGUST
Presented by Rosie Goldsmith.
KYLE MACLACHLAN
Rosie Goldsmith interviews Blue Velvet star Kyle MacLachlan about his career in film and TV and why he’s now turned to theatre.
On an Average Day is at the Comedy Theatre in London until the end of October.
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MAXFIELD PARISH
Artist Peter Blake on the appeal of artist Maxfield Parish whose paintings have been stolen from a Hollywood gallery.
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RUSSIAN DISCO
Wladimir Kaminer’s first book Russian Disco is a volume of 50 short, sharp funny essays depicting Kaminer’s adventures in Berlin over the past decade.
Journalist and writer Stefan Maelk talks to Rosie Goldsmith about how the book was received in Germany.
Russian Disco by Wladimir Kaminer is now available in the UK, published by Ebury Press.
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SPIDERS IN FILM
For Front Row the arachnologist and writer Martin Nicholas looks at the role of spiders in film and how they nearly always come to a messy end.
Eight Legged Freaks, Certificate 12 opens nation-wide on Friday August 9.
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SAS KIDS BOOKS
Ex-SAS soldier Chris Ryan interviewed about his new books Survival and Ratcatcher and why he started writing books for children. Author Francis Spufford puts these new adventure stories in context.
Alpha Force: Ratcatcher and Alpha Force: Survival by Chris Ryan are published by Red Fox. Francis Spufford's book The Child That Books Built is published by Faber and Faber.
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