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FRIDAY 16 AUGUST
Presented by Mark Lawson
TOM CLANCY
In a new film, The Sum Of All Fears, Morgan Freeman is the head of the CIA and Ben Affleck plays Tom Clancy hero, Jack Ryan. But as reader's of Clancy's books know, Ryan has already become President. The Sum Of All Fears features an earlier episode in Ryan's career as does Clancy's new novel, Red Rabbit. Guardian columnist, Peter Preston, discusses the Clancy oeuvre.
The Sum Of All Fears is released 16 August 2002
Tom Clancy's novel Red Rabbit is published by Michael Joseph (ISBN: 0718145011)
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ADVERTISING
How far is it possible to go when pushing a product? The first interactive advert is about to be screened on digital television in Britain. It allows TV viewers to influence the stotyline with their handsets during an advert for the charity the Depaul Trust. Barry Delaney discusses this development.
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SUMMER SOUNDS: LAURA LEE-DAVIES
Editor of Time Out magazinge, Laura Lee-Davies, selects music for Summer.
Laura Lee-Davies' choices were:
Doves - The Last Broadcast
(Heavenly Recordings)
Cornelius - Point
(Matador)
Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper
(Polydor Records)
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COLIN BATEMAN
Readers of Bateman's novels will recognise his hero, ex-journalist Dan Starkey. Colin Bateman talks to Mark Lawson about finding comedy in Belfast.
Colin Bateman's novel A Horse With No Name is published by Headline
(ISBN: 0755302389)
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MITTERAND
A film is in production based on a book called Dernier Mitterand which decribed the final days of the former president as he died from prostate cancer. Friends and family are now trying to prevent the film. Mark Lawson is joined by journalist Christian Mallard of the France 3 television station to discuss the controversy.
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