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Front Row: Craig Phillips and 'Nasty' Nick on the end of Big Brother

Craig Phillips and 'Nasty' Nick on the end of Big Brother

08/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Craig Phillips and 'Nasty' Nick on the end of Big Brother

Featuring Dame Beryl Grey, Ben Stiller in the film Greenberg and Big Brother's legacy.

With Mark Lawson, including Craig Phillips and 'Nasty' Nick on the legacy of Big Brother and an interview with Dame Beryl Grey, president of the English National Ballet.

With Mark Lawson, including a review of Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's film Greenberg, the tale of a man who gave up the possibility of life as a rock star to become a carpenter. 

"Nasty" Nick Bateman and Craig Phillips, housemates from the first series of Big Brother, discuss their experience during and following the show ten years ago and examine the apparent decline of the series itself. 

To mark the 60th anniversary of English National Ballet, their president the ballerina Dame Beryl Grey talks about her distinguished career. She was the first British dancer to perform with the Bolshoi ballet in Kruschev's Russia and she went to Mao's China in 1965 to dance with their national ballet company. Her debut was dancing the lead in Swan Lake at age 14 when Margot Fonteyn was injured. 

Producer Sam White.

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