Django Unchained, Gabriele d'Annunzio, English Manners, TS Eliot Prize for Poetry

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Philip Dodd discusses Quentin Tarantino's new movie "Django Unchained", the tale of a former slave who joins a bounty hunter on a rampage through the Deep South. A rare Hollywood film to grapple with the violence of slavery in the United States, its violence and language has caused significant controversy, with the filmmaker Spike Lee calling for its boycott. With cultural commentator Kit Davis and film critic Tim Robey. We'll look at the life and times of the Italian writer, adventurer and demagogue Gabriele D'Annunzio. He began his career in the 1880s writing about love and youth, but died on the eve of the Second World War as an elder statesman of Italian Fascism. Philip is joined by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of a new biography of D'Annunzio. Philip discusses the complex code of English manners and etiquette with Henry Hitchings whose new book, Sorry, tells their history, and we'll get the view from outside with the Chinese writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo. And we'll be talking to this year's winner of one of our most prestigious literary awards, the T.S.Eliot Prize for poetry.