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WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER
Presented by Francine Stock
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
Director Stephen Frears talks to Francine Stock about his new film Dirty Pretty Things which focusses on the unseen world of London's illegal immigrants.
Dirty Pretty Things, certificate 15, opens at cinemas nationwide Friday 13 December
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THE VORTEX
The Vortex, caused a sensation when first performed in 1924, propelling it's writer and leading actor, Noel Coward into the limelight. The play has just opened at the Donmar Warehouse. Journalist and theatre critic, Nina Caplan reviews.
The Vortex, Donmar Warehouse, London from 5 December - 15 February
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POSTPONED FIRST NIGHTS
Tomorrow's opening of Christopher Hampton's new play about Freud and Jung, The Talking Cure, has been called off, as James Hazeldine, who was to play Freud to Ralph Fiennes Jung, was suddenly ill and will be unable to perform. Serena Hill, casting director at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre talks to Francine Stock about how a production deals with this nerve-wracking situation.
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FAT VERUS THIN
Doorstopper or slim volume - fat novels versus thin ones, is it a transatlantic divide? Are European novels becoming slimmer than their American counterparts? Gage McWeeny, lecturer at Princeton University, and Rob Winder discuss the phenomenon.
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CHRISTMAS POP PICKS
Neil McCormick of The Telegraph picks his choice of the best pop CDs over the last year.
Pop Pick Details
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