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FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Francine Stock
ZADIE SMITH
Mark Lawson talks to novelist, Zadie Smith about her novel, The Autograph Man.
The Autograph Man is published by Penguin
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BOSSA NOVA
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has got together with two veterans of the Bossa Nova, Paula and Jacques Morelenbaum and released Casa. This week also sees the release of The Definitive Bossa, Samba and Pop by one of Afro-Brazilian music's leading figures, Gilberto Gil. Editor of Songlines magazine, Simon Broughton, has been listening to these new releases.
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Casa, Sony
Gilberto Gil, The Definitive Bossa, Samba and Pop, Warner Jazz
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KEN RUSSELL ON ELGAR
Ken Russell discusses his new film about the composer Edward Elgar, a subject he first visited for the BBC Monitor Arts Programme nearly forty years ago.
South Bank Show: Elgar - Fantasy On A Composer On A Bicycle, ITV1
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THE LUNAR MEN
Jenny Uglow discusses her new book, The Lunar Men, about five late eighteenth century polymaths.
Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810, Faber and Faber
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