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WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Variety Theatre critic Matt Wolf and writer and critic Hermione Lee give their verdict on the production of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Glenn Close at the National Theatre in London.
A Streetcar Named Desire opens tonight at the National Theatre in London.
Please note: this production is sold out. Day seats and returns only are available.
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Mark Lawson takes an irreverent look at how the evocative title of Tennessee Williams' play has been translated around the globe...
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JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Mark Lawson interviews The Virgin Suicides author Jeffrey Eugenides about his latest novel, Middlesex.
Jeffrey Eugenides' book Middlesex is published in hardback by Bloomsbury (ISBN: 0747560234)
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ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT
Andy Sullivan - High Tech Policy Reporter for Reuters - joins Mark Lawson from Washington to discuss moves in the US Supreme Court to overturn a 1998 Act of Congress which extended copyright from 50 years after an artist’s death to 70 years.
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ROBERTO BENIGNI'S PINOCCHIO
The director Roberto Benigni - who won three Oscars with his Holocaust movie Life Is Beautiful - has made his own version of the legend of Pinocchio. There has been great anticipation in Italy where the release is seen as a attempt to reclaim the character from America. John Wilson reports.
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THE KETCHUP SONG (ASEREJE)
Dance teacher Jessica Nagus teaches Mark Lawson and and Anna Kumblé who presents the Xchange on CBBC how to the ketchup dance which accompanies the Las Ketchup single Aserejé.
Aserejé (The Ketchup Song) by Las Ketchup is available on Columbia records.
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