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MONDAY 12 AUGUST
Presented by Rosie Goldsmith

RICHARD TOGNETTI
Rosie Goldsmith interviews Australian violinist and conductor, Richard Tognetti, about performing at the Proms with the Australian Chamber Orchestra

Richard Tognetti conducts the ACO at the Proms on Wednesday 14 and Monday 19 August. The ACO's new CD of music by Janacek, Szymanowski and Haas conducted by Tognetti is available from Chandos, catalogue number CHAN10016
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REAL PEOPLE
How closely do television programmes portray real life characters? Ozzy Osborne's lawyers have complained that Harry Enfield's new character, Gary Bloke, bears an uncanny resemblance to the popstar. Whilst in America the Los Angeles Police Department is trying to censor films which use its name without getting script approval first. Media lawyer Duncan Lamont joins Rosie Goldsmith
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SUMMER SOUNDS: COURTNEY PINE
Rosie Goldsmith talks to saxophonist Courtney Pine about his choice of music for this summer

Courtney Pine's musical choices were:

Kenny Garrett's Happy People
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Cassandra Wilson's Belly of the Sun
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Joe Zawinul's Faces and Places
(ESC)
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BITTER SWEET
Hwerow Hweg (Bitter Sweet) is the first feature film made in Cornwall by a Cornish cast and crew in both English and Kernewek. Rosie Goldsmith talks to the films Hungarian director, Antal Kovacs

Bitter Sweet gets its world premiere at the Montreal Film Festival on 22 August
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Friday is the 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Poet and novelist John Burnside considers the king for Front Row
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