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Radio 4,04 Oct 2010,30 mins

Turner Prize 2010 contenders; Gary Shteyngart

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With Kirsty Lang. David Tennant stars in Single Father, a TV drama about a newly-widowed man coping with raising four young children. Sarah Crompton reviews. The War Horse Puppeteers Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler are now collaborating with director Neil Bartlett on a gay love story. They discuss Or You Could Kiss Me, now showing at The National Theatre. Rachel Campbell-Johnston assesses the Turner Prize 2010 Exhibition. American Jewish writer Gary Shteyngart has drawn on his Russian roots in his prize winning first novel The Russian Debutante's Handbook, his satire Absurdistan and again in his new book Super Sad True Love Story. This is set in a future where America is collapsing, communication is via computer devices and books are reviled by all but the central character. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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