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Front Row: Tamara Drewe review and Richard Thomas talks shoes.

Tamara Drewe review and Richard Thomas talks shoes.

06/09/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Tamara Drewe review and Richard Thomas talks shoes.

With Kirsty Lang, including a review of new film Tamara Drewe starring Gemma Arterton.

With Kirsty Lang, including a review of new film Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, and a re-assessment of pioneering Victorian photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

With Kirsty Lang.

Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, Stephen Frears' new film Tamara Drewe is a dark comedy about a young London newspaper journalist who returns to her rural Dorset village following the death of her mother. It stars Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Greig and Roger Allam. Kate Saunders reviews.

Eadweard Muybridge broke new ground in the emerging art form of photography. Best known for his extensive portrayal of animal and human subjects in motion, he was also a landscape photographer, documentary artist and inventor. Joanna Pitman reviews a new retrospective at Tate Britain, London.

TV critic Boyd Hilton gives his verdict on ITV1's new breakfast show Daybreak, hosted by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley.

Composer-writer Richard Thomas, whose previous work includes Jerry Springer the Opera, opens Sadler's Wells Autumn 2010 season with Shoes, a song and dance revue inspired by footwear. 

The Sun newspaper has launched a perfume called Buzz to "capture the essence of celebrity." David Quantick takes a look at what makes a successful celebrity scent, from the top notes of lemon in the Sex Pistols perfume to Britney Spears' Circus Fantasy.

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