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FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
Presented by Francine Stock
DIARISTS
Michael Portillo reviews three new diaries written by Tony Benn, Alan Clark and Edwina Currie.
Alan Clark, The Last Diaries, Weidenfeld & Nicholson; ISBN: 0297607146
Tony Benn, Free at Last!, Hutchinson; ISBN: 0091793521
Edwina Currie, Diaries: 1987-1992, Time Warner; ISBN: 0316860247
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ROBERT DE NIRO
It is now more than 20 years since Robert De Niro's performance in Raging Bull won him an Oscar. A new biography has just been published of the man some critics believe to be the greatest Hollywood actor. Francine Stock talks to the book's author, John Baxter, about this most enigmatic of stars.
John Baxter, De Niro: A Biography, published by HarperCollins Entertainment; ISBN: 000257196X
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SWEPT AWAY
The husband and wife combination of film director Guy Ritchie and pop superstar and actress Madonna has now produced a film, a remake of a 1974 Italian movie. Swept Away, directed in the original by Lina Wertmuller, is a cautionary story of sex and power set on and off a boat in the Mediterranean. Tom Brook reports from New York…
Swept Away is scheduled for UK release in Spring 2003
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BEATING THE MUSIC PIRATES
Rather than buy, many people are copying CDs or downloading music onto their computers from free song-swapping sites. Record companies are bringing forward their release dates to beat the pirates. As a result, an album of greatest hits by the grunge band, Nirvana, will be available even earlier than intended. Laura Lee Davies, Editor of Time Out, assesses this phenomenon.
Nirvana, Greatest Hits Album, Geffen Records released on 28 October 2002
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KAREN WALLACE
Karen Wallace’s novel Raspberries on the Yangtze, set in Wallace’s native Canada, was a coming-of-age summer story in which a young girl gradually becomes aware of the complications and passions of grown-ups’ lives. The book has now been followed by Climbing a Monkey Puzzle Tree in which the heroine, Nancy, is sent from the Canadian backwoods to an English boarding school in the 1960s, as Wallace was. Francine Stock talks to Karen.
Climbing A Monkey Puzzle Tree and Raspberries on the Yangtze are available in paperback from Simon and Schuster
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