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Radio 4,13 Jul 2009,30 mins

13/07/2009

Front Row

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The BAFTA award-winning drama The Street is back for a third series. The drama, which explores the lives behind different closed doors on the same street somewhere in the North West of England, was conceived by Jimmy McGovern. He joins Mark Lawson, along with two of his co-writers, Esther Wilson and Peter Lloyd, to talk about the work involved in keeping The Street on the right road. The film Frozen River was nominated for two Oscars: best screenplay and best actress, for Melissa Leo's performance as a trailer mom lured into the business of smuggling immigrants between America and Canada across the frozen water of the St Lawrence River. Rachel Cooke reviews. Glen David Gold, American author of surprise best seller Carter Beats the Devil, talks about Sunnyside, his new epic novel which weaves American First World War history around the figure of Charlie Chaplin in a blend of fact and fiction.

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