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Postcard: Motor Car, unknown photographer, 1909 Weston-Super-Mare, Tom Phillips Collection
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WEDNESDAY 03 MARCH

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TOM PHILLIPS

Francine Stock talks to the artist Tom Phillips about his new exhibition of one thousand postcards from the twentieth century, just a fraction selected from his collection of fifty thousand cards.

We Are The People: Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips , runs until 20 June, National Portrait Gallery, London, Admission Free.

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NORTHFORK
James Wood and Nick Nolte star in Northfork, a strange tale about moving a whole town up a mountain to make way for a new dam - except for a few who refuse to leave. Reviewed by Adam Dawtry, European Editor of Variety Magazine.

Paramount's Northfork is released next Friday, 12 March, Certificate PG.

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WALT DISNEY's FUTURE
Walt Disney Shareholders held a meeting today to decide whether Michael Eisner, after 20 years as the head of the corporation, should continue. BBC correspondent Steve Evans reports.

Related links:
BBC News: Disney Boss fights his corner

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THE WILSON COLLECTION
Colin St John Wilson, architect of the British Library, is giving his art collection to the new wing at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. John Wilson reports.

A small selection of works from the Wilson collection are currently on show at the Pallant House Gallery and give a taster of what is to come.

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TOY PIANOS
Francine Stock talks to Margaret Leng Tan, an internationally celebrated artist renowned for her performance of American and Asian music that transcends the toy piano’s traditional boundaries.

Margaret Leng Tan is performing in Walton on Thames this Saturday as part of the Sonic Plus festival: Music in Minature and at the Trinity College of Music in London next Monday 8th March.

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