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07 September 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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MICHAEL BUERK REVIEWS ANCHORMAN
The lead actor Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay have worked together on the long running American television comedy show Saturday Night. In their film Anchorman they look at the world of television in the 70s as a newscaster feels threatened by the promotion of his female sidekick. Michael Buerk reviews Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Anchorman certificate 12A is released in cinemas on Friday
Michael Buerk's memoirs The Road Taken have just been published
BORIS JOHNSON ON HIS NOVEL, 72 VIRGINS
Boris Johnson, the MP for Henley on Thames and Shadow Arts Minister, talks about his comic thriller 72 Virgins, which imagines 4 Islamic terrorists using a stolen ambulance to take the US President hostage during a stage visit to London.
Boris Johnson's Seventy-Two Virgins is published by HarperCollins
NICHOLSON BAKER TALKS ABOUT CHECKPOINT
Nicholson Baker's novel also imagines an assassination attempt on the President. In his book Ben and Jay sit in a hotel room discussing methods of killing President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker is published by Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 1400044006
RICHARD GRIFFITHS ON MOBILE PHONE INTERRUPTIONS ON STAGE
The actor Richard Griffiths discusses how he reacted when a performance of Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at the National Theatre was interrupted by a mobile pager going off 6 times.
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