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WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER
Presented by Francine Stock
A BREATH OF LIFE
Writer Polly Toynbee and theatre critic Stephen Brown join Francine Stock in discussing David Hare's new play A Breath of Life, starring Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
David Hare’s A Breath of Life is at the Theatre Royal in London until December 21 2002.
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ARUNDHATI ROY
Francine Stock talks to writer Arundhati Roy.
Arundhati Roy’s The Algebra of Infinite Justice is published on 4 November by Flamingo Flamingo (ISBN: 0007149492).
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NIGEL PICKARD
Following the departure of ITV director of programmes David Liddiment, the new programming chief is to be Nigel Pickard, currently head of children’s television at the BBC. Matt Wells, who writeS on media affairs for the Guardian joins Francine.
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ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS
What makes an architectural wonder? Neil Parkyn, the author of a new book The Seventy Architectural Wonders of the World and architect and town planner Wendy Shillam talk to Francine Stock.
The Seventy Architectural Wonders of the Modern World by Neil Parkyn is published by Thames and Hudson on the 21st October (ISBN: 0500510474)
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FILM TITLES
When Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape made its lower-case appearance in 1989, it seemed quirky and contemporary. These days a web address like ‘insider.com’ isn’t radical for a film; nor is a series of numbers or letters initials, as Andrew Collins observes...
xXx opens in cinemas on Friday, certificate 18.
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