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WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
Presented by Francine Stock
NED KELLY
Poet and Australian ex-patriot, Peter Porter reviews Ned Kelly, director Gregor Jordan's new film about Australia's best-loved outlaw.
Ned Kelly opens in cinemas nationwide on Friday 26 September, certificate 15
Related websites:
BBC Films - Ned Kelly
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CITY OF THE FUTURE
In his first ever book, Guide to Ecstacity, Nigel Coates, Professor of Architectural Design at the Royal College of Art puts forward his vision for a new metropolis. Will Alsop is architect of the award-winning Peckham Library and presenter of Channel 4's new series, Supercities. They join Francine Stock to debate their contrasting views of the city of the future.
Guide to Ecstacity by Nigel Coates, Laurence King Publishing ISBN 185669383X. Supercities UK, begins Friday 26 September, Channel 4, 8pm
Related website: Royal College of Art - Architecture & Design
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FAKE BODY PARTS
ER and Holby City share more than the label 'hospital drama'; they exchange fake body parts including animatronic babies and hearts. Francine Stock talks to Kathleen Hutchison the executive producer Holby City the surreal but legal international exchange of prop organs.
Related websites:
BBC Holby City
ER
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THE SHELL SEEKERS
Author, Philippa Gregory discusses the enduring appeal of The Shell Seekers, the best-selling novel by Rosamunde Pilcher. A stage adaptation with Stephanie Cole is currently playing in Nottingham as part of a national tour.
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, published by Coronet, ISBN 0340491817. the natonwide tour of the Shell Seekers continues until the end of November and includes Darlington, Norwich, Poole, Richmond, Cheltenham, Eastbourne and Ipswich
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SCIENCE NOT ART
A few years ago, a group of artist published diaries of work in progress and the process of creativity. Now a goup of scientist have done the same in Not Art, Ten Scientists' Diaries. Janna Levin, cosmologist in the Astrophysics department at the University of Oxford and Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics, also at the University of Oxford talk to Francine Stock about explaining science to a wider audience.
Not Art, Ten Scientists' Diaries, edited by Jon Turney is published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and available from Central Books ISBN 0903319985. The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy, Fourth Estate ISBN 1841155799. How the Universe Got Its Spots Janna Levin, Princeton University Press ISBN 0691096570
BBC Science
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