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THURSDAY 05 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Francine Stock
ETHAN HAWKE
Francine Stock talks to Oscar-nominated actor Ethan Hawke about his second novel, Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday is published by Bloomsbury, ISBN: 074756003X
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CELEB
Harry Enfield's latest incarnation is Gary Bloke, an ageing rock star in Celeb. Francine Stock asks journalist and musician Pat Kane whether there is anything left to satirise about celebrity?
Celeb starts on Friday 6 September at 9pm on BBC1
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CHOOSING YOUR BIOGRAPHER
The sought-after task of writing the biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul has been given to Patrick French. But how does one go about choosing a biographer? Francine Stock talks to biographer Michael Holroyd.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS
Shane Meadows' new film has been described as "a tinned spaghetti Western". John Harvey discusses with Francine Stock whether Sergio Leone needs to watch out.
Once Upon A Time In The Midlands is released on Friday 6 September, cert. 15
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TREES
Thomas Pakenham's book Meetings with Remarkable Trees captured the British imagination in 1996. Thomas Pakenham and Dr Brent Eliot from the Royal Horticultural Society talk about the ways that writing on natural history has changed over the centuries.
Thomas Pakenham's book, Meetings with Remarkable Trees is published Weidenfield & Nicolson ISBN: 1841880868, £9.99
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