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MONDAY 20 JANUARY
Presented by Mark Lawson
ABOUT SCHMIDT
Film critic Mark Kermode reviews About Schmidt starring Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates.
About Schmidt opens in UK cinemas on Friday 24th January certificate 15
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MOVEON.ORG
During the 1964 presidential campaign, the Democrat incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, made a television commercial in which it was suggested that his hard-line Republican opponent Senator Barry Goldwater might blow the daisy-picking little girl to kingdom come in a nuclear conflagration. The ad became notorious as the mother of all negative political commercials. But the Johnson campiagn now has a kind of grandchild. The American antiwar group MoveOn.org has made a new version accusing Preseident George W Bush of following in the Goldwater tradition over Iraq. The novelist and journalist Jurt Andersen has seen both versions.
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TS ELIOT PEOTRY PRIZE
For the last ten years, the TS Eliot Poetry Prize has been given for the best book of verse to be published in the previous 12 months. The 10 writers shortlisted this year included a former winner, Paul Muldoon, the media-friendly Simon Armitage and the critically-hosannaed Geofrey Hill. But Mrs Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow, has just handed a £10,000 cheque in London to one of the lesser-known writers on the list: Alice Oswald for her second collection, Dart, which is based on conversations with dozens of people who live and work around the River Dart in Devon. Alice Oswald talks to Mark Lawson.
Dart, Alice Oswald, Faber and Faber; ISBN: 057121410X
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COVER VERSIONS COMPETITION
The latest Front Row competition roots out cover versions of a well-known song to come up with three unlikely versions of the same hit.
All you have to do is identify the song and the three artists covering it.
There'll be a song on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. All three songs can be heard again on Thursday's programme.
Please don't send your entries until you've heard all three songs.
LISTEN TO MONDAY'S SONG
Email your competition entry to the programme here.
DESIGNS ON DEMOCRACY
Designs For Democracy, a national competition for architects, invited new designs for town halls in Bradford, Letchworth and Stockport. The winners have just been announced in London and the winning architect in Bradford was Irena Bauman for a design which creates a civic pavilion - opening up the council chamber to public scrutiny - under a large see-through roof canopy. One of the competition judges, Paul Finch of The Achitects Journal, discusses town hall design with Irena Bauman.
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PROSPECT HILL
Richard Francis talks to Mark Lawson about Prospect Hill, his novel of life in the North West of England.
Richard Francis, Prospect Hill, Fourth Estate; ISBN: 0007141092
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