Shirley MacLaine, Thor, John Sullivan

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Shirley MacLaine, author and award-winning actress (The Apartment, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias) talks about sex, the mob, past life experience, and the end of the world, as she publishes a collection of her essays. Kenneth Branagh directs a new film about the Marvel comic book hero Thor, set in modern day New Mexico. Comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes reviews. John Sullivan, the writer of TV sitcoms including Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith, Just Good Friends and first series of The Green Green Grass, died on 23 April. Speaking in a Front Row interview recorded last year, John Sullivan talks about how shifting scenery helped him with his TV writing career and reveals the story behind the gag where Del falls through the bar. Producer Allegra McIlroy.