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Saturday Review

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Tom Sutcliffe sees Anthony Sher on stage in the world premiere of Ronald Harwood 's new play
Mahler's Conversion, which deals with the Jewish composer's shift to Catholicism in order to win the top job in the musical world of Vienna - conductor of the court opera. Plus a review of Amelie, the latest French film success for the director of Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The film concerns a young woman whose loving but eccentric parents teach her at home and raise her in a world devoid of physical contact. When her mother is killed, Amelie is left with only her withdrawn father and her imagination as a friend. Producer Erika Wright

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Tom Sutcliffe
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Anthony Sher
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Ronald Harwood
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Producer:
Erika Wright
Source: Radio Times

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