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Front Row: U Be Dead, Clybourne Park, The Boy Who Bit Picasso

U Be Dead, Clybourne Park, The Boy Who Bit Picasso

26/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, U Be Dead, Clybourne Park, The Boy Who Bit Picasso

U Be Dead reviewed; extra footage in Avatar and Metropolis: does it improve the films?

U Be Dead: TV drama about stalking reviewed. Avatar & Metropolis have been re-released with additional material - does the extra footage improve the films?

With Kirsty Lang. 

Based on a true story about a doctor who was the victim of a vicious stalker, TV drama U Be Dead stars David Morrissey and Tara Fitzgerald. Writer Rachel Cooke reviews. 

When Antony Penrose was three he became friends with Picasso. His mother was the celebrated photographer Lee Miller, whose photos of Picasso - fooling in his studio and playing games with her son - illustrate Antony Penrose's new book, The Boy Who Bit Picasso, which is both a memoir of his friend and an introduction for children to the art of Picasso. He talks about the great artist's love of children and animals.

Film director Fritz Lang's science fiction classic Metropolis has been newly restored, with almost 30 minutes of extra footage, and James Cameron's Avatar has just been re-released in cinemas with new material. Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh consider whether additional footage has ever improved a film. 

American playwright Bruce Norris discusses his new satirical comedy Clybourne Park. Set in both 1959 and 2009, it examines racial tensions over two generations. The cast for the British premiere includes Martin Freeman and Sophie Thompson.

Producer: Rebecca Nicholson.

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