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TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
THE CANTERBURY TALES
This week on BBC One begins a new six-part dramatisation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, starring James Nesbitt, Dennis Waterman and Julie Walters. TV critic Chris Dunkley and Marion Turner, Lecturer in Middle English at King's College, London join Mark Lawson to review.
The Canterbury Tales begins on BBC One this Thursday at 9 pm
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LENI RIEFENSTAHL
Front Row looks at the work of controversial film-maker Leni Riefenstahl, who made the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, who's died aged 101.
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DAVID BOWIE
Paul Sexton of Billboard magazine reviews David Bowie's new album Reality.
Reality is released by Columbia Records on 15 September
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BERNADO BERTOLUCCI
The Oscar winning Italian director Bernado Bertolucci tells Front Row why he's laying into 20th Century Fox, who want him to cut out scenes from his latest film The Dreamers, about a teenage ménage a trois in Paris.
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BETTING ON ARTISTIC PRIZES
Book-makers have reportedly become suspicious about the volume of bets placed on the band The Darkness to win the Mercury Music Prize. Graham Sharp of the book-maker's William Hill talks to Front Row about betting and artistic prizes.
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RELATED LINKS
Woman's Hour: Telling Tales - A Modern Day Canterbury Tales
BBC Canterbury Tales
David Bowie's official website
BBC News: Film-maker Leni Riefenstahl dies
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