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THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
A S BYATT
Mark Lawson talks to novelist, A S Byatt, about the fourth quarter of her Frederica Quartet, The Whistling Woman.
The Whistling Woman is published by Chatto & Windus
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POLITICAL PROGRAMMES RESHUFFLE
After a year long survey of its output, the BBC today announced a reshuffle of its news programmes. Richard Sambrook, deputy director of BBC News, explains to Mark Lawson why On The Record and Despatch Box are things of the past.
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THREE TALES
The three tales in question are about the Hindenburg disaster, the atomic explosions on Bikini and Dolly the Sheep. Composer Steve Reich and performance artist Beryl Korot talk to Mark Lawson about their video opera.
Three Tales is at the Barbican, London from 18 to 21 September
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LITERARY ENDORSEMENTS OF POLITICAL PARTIES
Conservative MP David Willetts has claimed that Bridget Jones was a Tory on the grounds that she was desperate to find a man and get married. But Bridget Jones' creator, Helen Fielding, disagrees. This exchange raises the question of which parties other fictional characters might back. Professor John Sutherland has been doing some research.
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HISTORY OF READER INDUCEMENTS
The New Scientist is offering the chance for one of its readers to have their body scientifically frozen when they die with the possibility of being thawed out at some point in the future. Mark Lawson discusses the history of magazine reader inducements with David Reed, author of The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States and Terry Mansfield, president of National Magazines.
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