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MONDAY 26 JANUARY
Presented by Mark Lawson
SYLVIA
The poet Peter Porter joins Mark Lawson to review the controversial new film about the life of Sylvia Plath and compares it to the film Lady Lazarus that dramatised poems written and read by Plath herself.
Sylvia is released around the country on 30th January, certificate 15 and the BFI's Lady Lazarus is at the Barbican cinema in London on 1st February
Related links:
BBCi Films - Sylvia
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STORYTELLING
It's National Storytelling week and Sue Hollingsworth and Jan Blake
join Mark Lawson to discuss why storytelling is a growing phenomenon.
Related links:
BBCi Books - How to write
National Storytelling Week
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BOSOM PALS
Louisa Buck reviews a new animated BBC series of the larger than life painted ladies Bosom Pals with Dawn French and Alison Steadman becoming the voices.
Part 1 of Bosom Pals is on BBC One tonight at 10.35 pm
Related links:
Beryl Cook
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LLOYD COLE
Mark Lawson talks to Lloyd Cole, the singer-songwriter once thought of as the great hope of 'literary pop' with hits like Rattlesnakes and Perfect Skin as he re-emerges from near bankruptcy in the 1990s to go on tour.
Lloyd Cole plays tonight at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and then on tour (see website)
Related links:
Lloyd Cole's website
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ICE SKATING SPECTACULAR
As the 'Holiday On Ice' show celebrates its 60th anniverary, Dennis Bird, historian of the National Ice Skating Association, explains how this form of art or entertainment on ice evolved.
Related links:
Holiday on Ice website
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