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Radio 4,27 Sep 2011,30 mins

Tim Pigott-Smith on King Lear, Fiona MacCarthy on Ford Madox Brown

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With Mark Lawson, who talks to actor Tim Pigott-Smith as he takes the title role in King Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Cultural Historian and Pre-Raphaelite biographer Fiona MacCarthy reviews the new Ford Madox Brown retrospective at Manchester Art Gallery. And novelist Nicholas Royle reviews Hidden, a new BBC One conspiracy thriller starring Philip Glenister. Producer Ekene Akalawu.

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