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MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY
Presented by Mark Lawson
THE HOURS
Director Stephen Daldry talks about The Hours, his David Hare scripted portrayal of novelist Virginia Woolf. With a prosthetically-transformed Nicole Kidman as Woolf, the film has been critically acclaimed in the USA and is tipped for a host of Oscar nominations.
The Hours is released in UK cinemas on Friday 14 February
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FAMILIES OF THE FAMOUS
Following Frieda Hughes' attack in poetry on the forthcoming film of her parents' life, Ted and Sylvia, Mark Lawson asks lawyer Mark Stephens whether there's anything a relative can do to stop film-makers.
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CONSTABLE TO DELACROIX
Constable to Delacroix examines the artistic exchange between France and England from 1816 to 1837, a period of High Romanticism. Constable, Turner, and Delacroix are among the artists united in this major exhibition at Tate Britain. Novelist Philip Hensher reviews.
Constable to Delacroix is at Tate Britain from 5 February to 11 May .
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COVER VERSIONS COMPETITION - NOW CLOSED
Song One (20 January)
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN performed by:
Rolf Harris
Dolly Parton
Dread Zeppelin
Song Two (21 January)
SUMMERTIME performed by:
Janis Joplin
The Flying Pickets
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Song Three (22 January)
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS performed by:
William Shatner
Amy Mann
Elton John
...And the winner (the name was pulled out of the FRONT ROW hat) is John Terry who will receive a £50 CD token.
PRESIDENTIAL EULOGIES
George W Bush gave an address to the USA this weekend for the seven astronauts killed in the destruction of the Columbia space shuttle. Almost 17 years previously, President Ronald Reagan delivered from the White House what was to become his most famous single speech: remembering the crew who died in the space shuttle Challenger. Mark Lawson discusses the language of tragedy with Jean Aitchison, the Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University.
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