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Start the Week: 07/06/2010

07/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 07/06/2010

Lively discussion with Andrew Marr and Yann Martel, Alastair Campbell and Thea Sharrock.

Andrew Marr is joined by Alastair Campbell, prize-winning novelist Yann Martel, theatre director Thea Sharrock and playwright Joy Wilkinson.

On Start the Week with Andrew Marr, the novelist Yann Martel, who wrote Life of Pi, explains how a donkey and a howler monkey are central to his latest book, Beatrice and Virgil. The architect of Labour's victory in 1997, Alastair Campbell reveals all about the prelude to power in his diaries, while the playwright Joy Wilkinson asks whatever happened to Margaret Beckett. And the theatre director Thea Sharrock celebrates the work of the writer, Terence Rattigan, with a production of After the Dance - a critique of the hedonistic 1920s generation as it heads for economic and political catastrophe. 
Producer: Katy Hickman.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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