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WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST
Presented by Mark Lawson
SWIMMING POOL
Swimming Pool is François Ozon's first English language film, and reunites the French director with Charlotte Rampling two years after Under the Sand. Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a famous British crime writer, whose quiet summer in Provence is turned upside-down by a series of unsettling events and a possbile real-life murder. Muriel Zagha reviews.
Swimming Pool is released in the UK on Friday 22nd August 2003
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DAVID CRYSTAL
David Crystal, world authority on the English language, speaks to Front Row as new editions of his seminal texts, English as a Global Language and the The Cambridge Encyclopaedia Of The English Language are published. Crystal discusses.
"The Cambridge Encyclopaedia Of The English Language" and "English as a Global Language" by David Crystal are published by CUP, 4th September 2003
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BURNING BOOKS
A new biography of Dora Diamant, Kafka’s last lover and the woman blamed for burning many of his notebooks and letters, suggests that she kept some letters and burnt others. For Front Row, Professor John Sutherland who teaches English at University College London, and Kathi Diamant, Dora’s biographer and Joan Vidal Hall, editor of the Index of Censorship talk about the history of burning literary works.
Kathi Diamant’s book Kafka’s Last Love is out now
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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.
3rd Reading
There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.
Let us assume that, however it may have been done, it is done. Let us take it that the bridge is built and crossed, that we can put it out of our mind. We have left behind the territory in which we were. We are in the far territory, where we want to be.
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2nd Reading
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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1st Reading
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.
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MUSIC COLLABORATIONS
In recent Top Twenty hits, up to half of the entries have featured collaborations between different performers. Music writer Gary Mulholland explains why these acts double up in the recording studio.
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