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19 October 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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Mike Leigh
Film director Mike Leigh talks to Mark Lawson about his new film, Vera Drake, which is being premiered at the London Film Festival. Set in 1950s London, it tells the story of a woman who works as a back-street abortionist.
Vera Drake opens the London Film festival on 20th October - and is released nationwide in early January, 2005.
Losing Gracefully...
On the night that the winner of the 2004 Man Booker prize is announced, fellow author Julie Myerson - Booker longlisted last year for Something Might Happen - discusses with Mark Lawson the etiquette regarding not winning literary awards, not being shortlisted, and getting bad reviews for your books.
The Power of Nightmares
Mark Lawson and journalist and columnist Peter Preston review this new TV series, in which Adam Curtis considers the idea that politicians use fear-mongering to further their own aims.
The Power of Nightmares begins on BBC at 9pm on 20th October
Dom Joly
Mark Lawson talks to comedian Dom Joly - creator of Trigger Happy TV - about his new autobiography which includes tales of meeting Peter Mandelson, working as a spy and sharing a lift with Vanessa Feltz for 3 months - all of which, he claims, is "completely, unadulteratedly and unarguably true"
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