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LANTANA/LA SPAGNOLA
Clive James reviews Australian films Lantana and La Spagnola.

Lantana is released in London on the 16 August and nation-wide on August 23. La Spagnola is released this Friday. Both Certificate 15.
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MCALMONT AND BUTLER
In the month of the release of their new album Bring it Back, John Wilson talks to Bernard Butler and David McAlmont.

McAlmont and Butler’s album Bring it Backis out on the 12th August on Chrysalis.
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THE RAILWAY IN FICTION
Front Row considers the impact the railway had on fiction talking to Andrew Martin author of The Necropolis Railway,George Eliot's biographer Dr Kathryn Hughes and author of Reinventing the Victorians, Dr Matthew Sweet.

The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin is published by Faber on August 19.

The Last Journey of William Huskisson is written by Simon Garfield (Faber and Faber; ISBN: 0571210481)
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CULT TO MAINSTREAM
As Bargain Hunt moves from the graveyard slot to prime time, Adam Buxton of the Adam and Joe show looks at what happens when cult goes mainstream.

Bargain Hunt is on 22 August at 8pm on BBC ONE.
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