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THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
BROOKSIDE
20 years after it first appeared on our television screens the Channel 4 series Brookside is moving from its prime-time evening slot.
Mark Lawson talks to Brookside's creator, Phil Redmond.
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IRAQI SATIRE
BBC correspondent in Amman, Caroline Hawley, reports from Baghdad about a new play No Need to Tell Me, I've Seen It For Myself satirising the difficulties of everyday life for Iraqis.
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AMERICANS
The latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery explores the question of whether there is such a thing as the American face. Novelist and American studies expert, Richard Francis, takes a tour of the exhibition.
Americans: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery Washington on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London, until 5 January 2003
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
National Poetry Day is now in its 9th year and this year, its theme is celebration.
Liz Lochhead reads her new poem, A Night In, written especially for the occasion and she talks to Mark Lawson about writing to commission.
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IMRE KERTESZ
Hungarian novelist, Imre Kertesz, has won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Kertesz, a Nazi concentration camp survivor, received the academy's vote for his exploration of how "individuals can survive when subjected to barbaric" social forces.
Tibor Fischer takes a look at his life.
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