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WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH
Presented by Mark Lawson
JOURNALISTIC PLAYS
Playwright David Hare has changed a line in 'The Permanent Way', his sell-out play about rail privatisation, after a railway executive complained he'd been misrepresented. Mark Lawson, playwright David Edgar and solicitor Mark Stephens explore the implications of this for future plays with a journalistic stance.
'The Permanent Way' is in rep at the National Theatre, but is transferring from the Cottesloe to the Lyttleton
David Edgar's two play cycle 'Continental Divide' opens at the Barbican Theatre London, on Saturday 20 March
Related links:
National Theatre
Barbican
 Listen to the discussion
THE BOY WHOSE SKIN FELL OFF
Jonny Kennedy was born with an incurable genetic skin blistering condition, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa. Filmmaker Jane Treays reviews a Channel 4 documentary which follows the last four months of his life.
'The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off' is on Channel Four, Thursday the 25th March at 9pm
Related links: DEBRA
Listen to the review
POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
Poet Peter Porter reviews The Faber Poets Series: ten poetry volumes - each an anthology of a different poet, chosen by a modern poet.
The Faber Poets Series is available now at Faber & Faber publishers.
Tomorrow night at Somerset House, to mark the launch of the series, poets Douglas Dunn, Mick Imlah and Jon Stallworthy will be talking about their new anthologies
Related links:
Faber's Poet Series
Listen to the review
THE VIOLA
Viola-player Lawrence Power, the soloist in tomorrow's UK premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's Viola Concerto On Opened Ground, explains why the viola is an unfairly-maligned instrument.
Viola Concerto 'On Opened Ground' tomorrow night, 18 March 2004 at 19:30
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London
Related links:
Turnage's Viola Concerto
Listen to the interview
COLUMN: THE BRIEFCASE
On the same day that Gordon Brown holds aloft his briefcase to launch this year's budget, as Chancellors do every year, writer Lawrence Howarth considers the significance of the briefcase.
Listen to the column
SHORT STORY COMPETITION
THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED! Winners will be announced this Thursday 18 March and you will be able to read the winning entries.
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