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Radio 4,07 Jun 2010,30 mins

Barack Obama biographer David Remnick

Front Row

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With Mark Lawson, including an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick, who is publishing a biography of Barack Obama. Steve Punt and Richard Cork discuss Rude Britannia, a new exhibition of British comic art from the 1600s to the present day. A review of Hollywood actor Dougray Scott and Sophie Okonedo in a new four part TV drama Father & Son, about inner-city life in Manchester. The verdict on new film Women Without Men, set in Iran in the summer of 1953, following the lives of four women in the aftermath of a British-backed coup that resulted in the reinstallation of the Shah. Producer Jack Soper.

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