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THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
STEPHEN FREARS: THE DEAL
Mark Lawson talks to the film director Stephen Frears. His latest project is a controversial television play about the early relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, culminating in the deal over the Labour leadership supposedly struck between the two men in an Islington restaurant in 1992. Stephen Frears explains how he decided which version of events to believe.
The Deal is on Channel 4 on Sunday, September 28 at 9 pm
Related website: BritFilms: Stephen Frears Biog
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PETER PAUL RUBENS
A new exhibition of oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens reveals fascinating details of the great painter's working methods. Mark will be talking to National Gallery curator David Jaffé about how these small sketches became projects on a much larger scale.
Peter Paul Rubens: A Touch of Brilliance, runs from 20 Sept 2003 to 8 Feb 2004 at the Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London.
Launch the RUBENS GALLERY
Related website: The Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
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BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY
As MPs call for more tax breaks for the struggling British film industry, Front Row looks at the challenges ahead for our film-makers. John Wilson reports.
Related website: BBCi News: TV Firms told to back UK Film
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RAISING VICTOR VARGAS
Raising Victor Vargas is a film from a new director widely acclaimed in America, Peter Sollett, about teenage love in New York's Lower East Side. Catherine Shoard, film critic of the Sunday Telegraph reviews.
Raising Victor Vargas is at selected cinemas across the country from tomorrow, Certificate 15.
Related website:
BBC Films: Peter Sollett Interview
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HANDEL HOUSE
The rock-star Jimi Hendrix lived during the late 1960s in the London house once occupied by the composer Handel, which makes them cross-historical musical housemates. David Quantick reflects on this classical-rock fusion.
This weekend the Handel House Museum opens Handel's flat to the public for the first time, Brook St. London.
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