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TUESDAY 19 AUGUST
Presented by Mark Lawson
THE MAN WHO SUED GOD
The Reverend Stephen Brown, film reviewer for the Church Times, joins Mark Lawson to review a new Australian film directed by Mark Joffe, The Man Who Sued God. It stars Billy Connelly in his first comedy role in film.
The Man Who Sued God is on general release this Friday, certificate 15
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DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS
The novelist and critic Peter Gutteridge reviews Death in Holy Orders, adapted for TV from a PD James novel about homicide in a theological college on a remote Suffolk coast. Martin Shaw plays Commander Adam Dalgleish.
Death in Holy Orders begins on BBC1 this Saturday 23 August at 9.05 pm and the concluding part is on Sunday at 8.30 pm
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WRITING ABOUT SEX
Authors Adam Thirwell and Candida Clarke talk to Mark Lawson about how they write about sex.
Politics by Adam Thirwell is published by Cape
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SEPTEMBER NOVELS COMPETITION
Each day this week five passages from different books will be read out on air. You have to guess who the five authors are by their writing style. By the end of this week all five readings will be available to see here on the website.
Reading Two
The day she walked the streets of Silk, a chafing wind kept the temperature low and the sun was helpless to move outside thermometers more than a few degrees above freezing. Tiles of ice had formed at the shoreline and, inland, the thrown-together houses on Monarch Street whined like puppies. Ice slick gleamed, then disappeared in the early evening shadow, causing the sidewalks she marched along to undermine even an agile tread, let alone one with a faint limp. She should have bent her head and closed her eyes to slits in that weather, but being a stranger, she stared wide-eyed at each house searching for the address that matched the one in the advertisement: One Monarch Street.
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Reading One
Every woman he dares to sleep with bears his child. So now it is Mouetta's turn. Whispering and smudging his ear with her lipstick, her breath a little sour from the garlic in her lunch, she confirms her first, his sixth pregnancy. His sixth at least. She's 'passed the urine test,' she says - an unintended play on words, which she acknowledges in the matinée darkness with half an optimistic smile. The doctor thinks she's twelve or thirteen weeks. A baby due by May. It's early days.
APPEARANCE FEES
Participants in documentaries often have to settle for a small disturbance fee. But an impending BBC documentary about the actor and director Lord Richard Attenborough resulted in an unusual and ingenious appearance fee - two free films for appearing in one. Arena director Adam Low joins Mark Lawson to explain.
Arena - The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough is on BBC Two, 24 and 25 August
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MUSICAL THANK-YOUS
Mark Sutherland looks at musical thank-yous.
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RELATED LINKS
Front Row: Interview with PD James
BBCi Films: The Man Who Sued God
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