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11 October 2004
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SUE TOWNSEND
Mark Lawson talks to author Sue Townsend, the creator of compulsive diarist Adrian Mole. In her new book, Adrian is 34 years old, still in love with Pandora and living in a converted factory. Sue Townsend talks to Mark about writing her latest novel by dictating it to her husband as she is now completely blind.

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is published by Penguin

BRUCE NAUMAN AT TATE MODERN
Art critic Waldemar Januszszak reviews Raw Materials, a new sound installation by Bruce Nauman which is the latest work in the turbine hall at Tate Modern.

Raw Materials is on at London's Tate Modern until 28 March 2005

DIRECTORS AS ACTORS
As Martin Scorsese takes on a part in the new animation Shark Tale - the veteran director is the voice of a puffer fish - critic Adam Smith considers what happens when directors move in front of the camera.

Shark Tale is released on Friday with a U certificate

WHITE CHICKS
Ekow Eshun joins Mark Lawson to review White Chicks in which two black FBI agents, played by Shawn and Marlon Wayans disguise themselves as white women to go undercover.

White Chicks is released on Friday 15 October, certificate 12A

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