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17/09/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Barry Humphries and John Simm

Barry Humphries on Dame Edna, and John Simm discusses playing Hamlet.

Actor John Simm prepares to take on the role of Hamlet in Sheffield, and Barry Humphries discusses his intimate relationship with Dame Edna Everage.

Barry Humphries talks frankly to Kirsty Lang about his intimate relationship with Dame Edna Everage and explains why she is trying to have his new biography of her banned.

Actor John Simm, following his roles as Sam Tyler in the TV drama Life on Mars and The Master in Doctor Who, discusses the prospect of taking on the role of Hamlet at the Crucible in Sheffield.

And on the 50th anniversary of Hitchcock's Psycho, and the 30th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining starring Jack Nicholson, Adam Smith wonders why anyone who'd ever been to the cinema would ever choose to stay in a hotel or motel.

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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