Stewart Lee; Impressionist Gardens; The A-Team; Beat Generation

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With John Wilson, who reviews new cinematic remakes of the 1980s screen hits The Karate Kid and The A-Team. Comedian Stewart Lee analyses his work in How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life And Deaths Of A Stand-Up Comedian; the book details Lee's return to stand-up comedy after quitting the business in 2001 and going on to direct Jerry Springer the Opera. John Wilson talks to photographer Harold Chapman, whose work depicts life at 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur, nicknamed the Beat Hotel, a run-down residence in Paris' Latin Quarter famed as the flophouse of some of the most important writers, poets and artists of the Beat Generation. Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, which examines the significance, origins, and influence of the Impressionist garden. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.