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Radio 4,01 May 2009,30 mins

01/05/2009

Front Row

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Actor Jim Broadbent talks to Mark Lawson about his career, which has included playing real life characters Lord Longford, composer WS Gilbert, writer John Bayley and Derby County chairman Sam Longson, and about making up his own eccentric dance moves for the film Moulin Rouge! Andrew Logan, founder of the Alternative Miss World competition, talks about this year's pageant, themed around the Elements. Why is it not socially acceptable to clap between movements of a symphony? Ian Hislop, conductor John Eliot Gardiner and Margaret Faultless, one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, discuss concert hall etiquette.

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