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TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
Chris Tookey, film critic for the Daily Mail gives his verdict on the suprise hit film.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding opens around the country on Friday.
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THE ANGRY YOUNG MEN
Playwright John Osborne was partly responsible for the durable English expression: The Angry Young Men. This was the headline phrase applied to Osborne, Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain, Colin Wilson and other writers who emerged at the time. Humphrey Carpenter has now written the first group biography of these writers. Front Row brought him together with one of the surviving figures from the Index: Al Alvarez.
The Angry Young Men by Humphrey Carpenter is published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press (ISBN: 0713995327)
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MICHAEL HOUELLEBECQ
The novelist Michael Houellebecq went on trial in Paris this morning accused of inciting racial hatred. John Lichfield - Paris correspondent of the Independent newspaper - has been watching today’s developments as the trial began.
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NICOLA BARKER
Mark Lawson talks to author Nicola Barker about her latest book Behindlings set in Canvey Island, Essex.
Behindlings by Nicola Barker is available now and published by Flamingo.
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KGB STATUE
Moscow's mayor has announced plans to restore a statue of the first chairman of the KGB - Felix Dzerzhinsky, a bogeyman for Cold War Russians - which stood in Lubyanka Square in Moscow until 1991. The Russian journalist Nicolae Gostov explained its history...
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