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Saturday Review

on BBC Two England

The arts and media magazine presented by Russell Davies including:
Architecture: the Big Bang has already changed the architectural face of much of London. With the City's centre spreading, the area around Spitalfields market now faces being torn between the redevelopers and the conservationists. This conflict calls into question our whole notion of what city life should be, and how architects should serve and preserve it. Leon Krier and Richard MacCormac are among those architects facing the dilemma of how to finance redevelopment without destroying the community.
Music: Olivier Messiaen , France's greatest living composer, is spending this week at the Royal Academy of Music working with student performers and new composers such as George Benjamin. Paul Crossley reports on the festival and talks to Messiaen about the experience of passing on his insights to a new generation. Books: the man behind The Face on the Cutting Room
Floor: 50 years ago Gollanz published this thriller by Cameron McCabe set in London's film world. On its republication by Penguin,
Saturday Review tracks down its real author,
Ernest Borneman , now a leading sexologist in upper Austria. Directors DAISY GOODWIN
PETER MANUIRA. ALEX MARENGO Producer KEVIN LOADER
Editor JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Presented By:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Leon Krier
Unknown:
Richard MacCormac
Music:
Olivier Messiaen
Unknown:
George Benjamin.
Unknown:
Paul Crossley
Unknown:
Cameron McCabe
Unknown:
Ernest Borneman
Directors:
Daisy Goodwin
Producer:
Kevin Loader
Editor:
John Archer

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