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TUESDAY 7 JANUARY
Presented by Mark Lawson
WHITBREAD PRIZE
Tonight Front Row announces exclusively the category winners for the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards 2002. David Reed, Director of Corportate Affairs for Whitbread joins Mark Lawson to announce the shortlisted books and the winners of each of the five categories. Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of The Independent assesses the five category winners.
The winner of the £25,000 Whitbread Book Award will be chosen by a panel chaired by Ian Hislop on 28 January. For further information visit the Whitbread Book Awards 2002 website
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WIFE SWAP
According to novels such as John Updike's Couples and Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, wife-swapping parties were common in 1960s English and American suburbia. Tonight on Channel 4 in Wife Swap, the latest in confrontational reality TV, wives from eight very different families agree to a swap families, homes and lifestyles for a fortnight.
Bringing together one half from two literary partnerships in Front Row's own marital mix n'match, the writer and critic Jonathan Myerson - partner of the novelist Julie Myerson - along with the biographer and journalist Valerie Grove, who's married to the writer Trevor Grove, join Mark Lawson to review the series.
Wife Swap, Channel 4, tonight at 9pm
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CULTURAL MANIFESTO: SIR RICHARD EYRE
Front Row asks leading figures in the arts to declare the policies they would like to see their art-form adopting, or hope to follow themselves.
Tonight, Sir Richard Eyre, director of Iris, one of last year's most admired films, looks ahead to the next twelve months.
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NICHOLAS MOSELEY
In 1991 Hopeful Monsters which dealt with science and religion won the Whitbread Book of the Year. Its author, Nicholas Moseley has also written two biographies about his family in which he tries to come to terms with his feelings for his controversial father, Oswald Moseley. His new novel Inventing God interweaves characters in Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and England in a story that ends in September 1991.
Inventing God published by Secker & Warburg, ISBN: 0436210118
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